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Is it safe to message other apps from WhatsApp? | Kaspersky official blog

April 19, 2024 admin 0 Comments discord, E2E, end-to-end encryption, Facebook Messenger, iMessage, messenger, messenger apps, messengers, privacy, settings, signal, skype, Technology, telegram, threema, Tips, viber, WhatsApp

Credit to Author: Stan Kaminsky| Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 10:38:15 +0000

WhatsApp will soon support messaging with other apps. Should you use this feature? What are the benefits and risks?

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How to use encrypted messaging apps properly so as to keep your chats confidential | Kaspersky official blog

July 26, 2023 admin 2fa, confidentiality, end-to-end encryption, iMessage, messages, messenger, messenger apps, messengers, privacy, settings, signal, telegram, Tips, WhatsApp

Credit to Author: Stan Kaminsky| Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 19:10:53 +0000

How to secure conversations on your phone, and why encryption alone is not enough.

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“Look what I found here” phish targets Facebook users

May 17, 2022 admin bad link, chat, contacts, Facebook, family, FRIENDS, look what i found, messenger, phish, phishing, scams

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 10:54:33 +0000

A Facebook Messenger phish is asking would-be victims to “take a look”. But what lies in wait for eager clickers?

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ACCESS Act might improve data privacy through interoperability

November 6, 2019 admin access act, apple pages, big tech, Center for Democracy and Technology, Competition, Congress, data interoperability, data portability, Data Privacy, data privacy laws, data privacy legislation, ello, European Union, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, google, google docs, instagram, interoperability, LinkedIn, mark zuckerberg, Mastodon, messenger, Microsoft Word, portability, privacy, Senate, the access act, Twitter, us congress, US data privacy laws, US data privacy legislation, user privacy, WhatsApp

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Data privacy is back in Congressional lawmakers’ sights, as proposed legislation called the ACCESS Act focuses not on data collection, storage, and selling, but on the idea that Americans should be able to easily pack up their data and take it to a competing service. But will this actually protect privacy?

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Facebook’s history betrays its privacy pivot

March 20, 2019 admin advertising portal, Aela Callan, Australia, Australian, Brian Acton, Burmese, Business, cambridge analytica, CEO announcements, CLOUD Act, data breach, digital living room, digital town square, discrimination, discriminatory, E2E, Elliot Schrage, encryption, end-to-end encryption, ethnic cleansing, Facebook, FOSTA, Human rights, human rights violations, instagram, Jan Koum, Malwarebytes news, mark zuckerberg, messenger, Myanmar, net neutrality, Onava, privacy, ProPublica, Rohingya, Rohingya Muslim, SESTA, SESTA/FOSTA, Sheryl Sandberg, ultranationalist, unsend, WhatsApp

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Facebook’s self-proclaimed pivot to privacy faces a fierce opponent—Facebook’s own history.

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A week in security (February 4 – 8)

February 11, 2019 admin Amazon, apple, AT&T, Australia, bitcoin, bounty hunters, cryptocurrency, cryptography, cybersecurity, Do Not Track, ebooks, Facebook, google, instagram, internet, jeff bezos, John wick, kindle, messenger, safari, secure messaging, Security world, Sprint, T-Mobile, URLs, Week in security, WhatsApp, zcash, Zero-Day

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 17:05:33 +0000

A roundup of security news from February 4 – 8, including Facebook’s secure messaging integration, Google’s changes to URLs, a scam involving the Kindle store and John Wick, and more.

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Merging Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram: a technical, reputational hurdle

February 7, 2019 admin apple, encryption, end-to-end encryption, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, instagram, messaging services, messenger, privacy, Security world, signal, WhatsApp

Credit to Author: davidruiz| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 16:53:35 +0000

Facebook’s plan to integrate secure messaging across Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram will demand technical know-how and a fierce commitment to user privacy.

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Facebook spammers making things worse

April 13, 2018 admin cybercrime, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, finnish, messenger, Social engineering, spam, Youtube

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Adding to Facebook’s burden are two spam campaigns. One is aimed at Finnish users and the other was quickly terminated, but we expect both to resurface in one form or another.

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