Meta’s Facebook security team warns of live exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in the open-source FreeType library.
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Meta Hit With $102 Million Privacy Fine From European Union Over 2019 Password Security Lapse
Meta fined more than $100 million by a European Union privacy regulator over a security lapse involving Facebook passwords.
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Meta Agrees to $1.4B Settlement With Texas in Privacy Lawsuit Over Facial Recognition
Meta has agreed to a $1.4 billion settlement with Texas in a privacy lawsuit over a facial recognition feature.
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Brazil Data Regulator Bans Meta From Mining Data to Train AI Models
Brazil’s national data protection authority has determined that Meta cannot use data originating in the country to train its artificial intelligence.
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Meta’s Virtual Reality Headset Vulnerable to Ransomware Attacks: Researcher
Researcher shows how hackers could use social engineering to deliver ransomware and other malware to Meta’s Quest 3 VR headset.
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Supreme Court Will Take Up Meta’s Bid to End Lawsuit Over Cambridge Analytica Privacy Scandal
The Supreme Court will take up Meta’s bid to end the lawsuit over the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal.
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CISO Conversations: Talking Cybersecurity With LinkedIn’s Geoff Belknap and Meta’s Guy Rosen
SecurityWeek interviews Geoff Belknap, CISO at LinkedIn, and Guy Rosen, CISO at Facebook parent company Meta.
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Meta Says It Will Label AI-Generated Images on Facebook and Instagram
Facebook and Instagram users will start seeing labels on AI-generated images that appear on their social media feeds, as the tech industry aims to sort between what’s real and not.
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Meta Makes End-to-End Encryption a Default on Facebook Messenger
End-to-End encryption in Facebook Messenger means that no one other than the sender and the recipient — not even Meta — can decipher people’s messages.
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Meta Takes Action Against Multiple Foreign Influence Campaigns
Meta removed three foreign influence operations from the Facebook platform during Q3, 2023. Two were Chinese in origin, and one was Russian, the company says.
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