Facebook Data Breach Affecting 30 Million Users Makes Victims More Susceptible to Account Takeover
While nearly 30 million Facebook users had their names and basic contact information stolen, about 14 million of these data breach...
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Nov 4, 20213 min read
Facebooks Leads the Way, But Many Social Media Platforms DriveTraffic and Sales
The top 500 online retailers in terms of site traffic from social media earned $3.3 billion in revenue from social shopping in 2014 while...
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Nov 4, 20213 min read
Get Ready for Facebook’s Foray into Payments
Facebook announced new features to their Messenger service in March allowing users to make P2P payments, but didn’t stop there. They have...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read
Using Social Media to Drive More Sales
Most eCommerce merchants have a social media presence these days, but not all are using it to their full potential. The Fraud Practice...
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Nov 3, 20211 min read
Major Facebook permissions bug found by producers of privacy app
When bug-testing a new Facebook app, a group of programmers recently stumbled over a dangerous and previously unknown Facebook bug. With...
Fraud Practice
Nov 3, 20212 min read
Mobile Apps Rollout “Autofill with Facebook” for Easier Payments
In a partnership with multiple payment providers Facebook is supporting the capability for consumers to conveniently auto populate...
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Nov 3, 20212 min read
Study Finds Facebook ‘Likes’ Can be Used to Determine Demographic and Personal Information
While many social media users have become more aware of privacy issues and have made their profiles private, a recent academic study has...
David Montague
Nov 2, 20212 min read
Spammers Scrape Facebook Friends for Targeted Phishing Attacks
Facebook recently announced that they uncovered an incident where fraudsters used compromised email addresses to scrape lists of Facebook...
David Montague
Nov 1, 20212 min read
Facebook Stops 600,000 Account Takeover Attempts Each Day
As the world’s largest social network and the second most visited website it should come as no surprise that Facebook sees a lot of...
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