Watch out for neglected privacy settings

We all have our privacy settings set to reflect how much we share on social media. After all, most of us would never post the phone number or address of our home or office building. But there are many things you may not think about when it comes to online security and privacy. For example, what about the data collected by your GPS app? We should regularly maintain our online …

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Facebook buys cracked passwords for your security

As a precaution, many people use different passwords for every website they visit to avoid the possibility of one getting hacked and their information being stolen. But what happens if your password gets hacked? Facebook is trying to fill this gap by buying “cracked” passwords from these kinds of sellers; Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has revealed in a recent post that his company had purchased the hacked passwords of millions …

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Awkward Instagram error

It may seem uncomfortable now, but the shift in social media domination is already in motion. Instagram and Facebook are the two most popular apps in the world, and they combine to reach more than 1 billion people every day. The case A bug in one of the Facebook-owned photo-sharing service’s APIs was accidentally introduced, allowing anyone to view users’ private data, provided they knew how to use the API. …

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