This Android app with over 1 lakh installs is stealing your Facebook credentials
3 years ago

This Android app with over 1 lakh installs is stealing your Facebook credentials

India Today  

It won’t be wrong to say that Apple’s App store policies for developers are much stronger than those of the Google Play Store. A new report from Pradeo suggests that a cartoonifier app, installed by 1,00,000 users, was stealing Facebook credentials. This process allows the app to bypass the Google Play store’s policies without raising any red flags. -Always install apps verified ones -- from a reliable app store Google Play Store or Apple App store.

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Meta says nearly a million Facebook users’ login information compromised by malicious apps
2 years, 5 months ago

Meta says nearly a million Facebook users’ login information compromised by malicious apps

The Hindu  

About a million Facebook users’ accounts may have been compromised after they downloaded malicious apps that stole login information, Meta Platforms said last week. According to a company blog post on October 7, Meta identified over 400 malicious Android and iOS apps that tried to steal users’ credentials, mainly by having them log in through Facebook. “We’ve reported these malicious …

Meta Warns 1 Million Users Under Risk Of Losing Access To Their Account: All Details
2 years, 5 months ago

Meta Warns 1 Million Users Under Risk Of Losing Access To Their Account: All Details

News 18  

Meta has warned at least 1 million Facebook users about more than 400 malicious Android and iOS apps targeting them to steal their login information and compromise their accounts. “These apps were listed on the Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store and disguised as photo editors, games, VPN services, business apps and other utilities to trick people into downloading …

Usernames, passwords of 1 million Facebook users ‘compromised’: Meta
2 years, 5 months ago

Usernames, passwords of 1 million Facebook users ‘compromised’: Meta

Hindustan Times  

Meta Platforms, the company formerly known as Facebook Inc., said on Friday usernames and passwords of around 1 million Facebook users have been ‘compromised,’ adding that those affected will be notified about the situation. “This year, we identified more than 400 ‘malicious’ apps, on both Android and iOS, that target internet users and steal their login information,” Meta stated. Meanwhile, …

Android smartphone users alert! Remove these 9 apps with hidden Trojan virus
3 years, 8 months ago

Android smartphone users alert! Remove these 9 apps with hidden Trojan virus

Live Mint  

The Android ecosystem has encountered a new batch of virus that hide themselves in applications. While Google Play Store may have removed these apps, users who might have downloaded the apps should also delete them from their device in order to steer clear from any further compromise. A cybersecurity service provider, DrWeb has published a new report showcasing the discovery …

Facebook is on the offensive against Apple's upcoming data privacy update
4 years, 1 month ago

Facebook is on the offensive against Apple's upcoming data privacy update

India Today  

Two of Silicon Valley’s largest tech giants, Apple and Facebook, are in a bitter fight that revolves around the iPhone data of millions of people and whether tech companies should be able to track that data as easily as they do now without people’s consent. Various types of data collected from users are used by companies like Facebook to personalise …

EU’s Vestager warns Apple to treat all apps equally amid privacy dispute
4 years, 1 month ago

EU’s Vestager warns Apple to treat all apps equally amid privacy dispute

The Hindu  

Europe's antitrust chief, Margrethe Vestager, has warned Apple Inc to give equal treatment to all apps on its platform amid the iPhone maker's privacy changes that have drawn charges of anti-competitive practices from rival Facebook Inc. Apple will in the spring ask iPhone users for consent to track their data for personalised ads in what it says is a move …

Facebook's fight against iOS 14 privacy rules is laughable, distracting, says digital rights group
4 years, 3 months ago

Facebook's fight against iOS 14 privacy rules is laughable, distracting, says digital rights group

India Today  

Facebook is putting out all the stops to make sure Apple is compelled to abandon the new iOS 14 privacy rules. Now, a digital rights group has said that Facebook’s campaign against Apple is laughable and a ploy to distract users. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, better known as EFF, has said that Facebook’s criticisms against Apple are laughable while siding …

Apple's anti-app tracking policy is all about profit, not privacy, Facebook says
4 years, 3 months ago

Apple's anti-app tracking policy is all about profit, not privacy, Facebook says

The Hindu  

Facebook slammed Apple's new App Tracking Transparency policy for being more about the iPhone maker's own profit, and not privacy. "They’re creating a policy — enforced via iOS 14’s AppTrackingTransparency — that’s about profit, not privacy," said Dan Levy, VP Ads and Business Products, Facebook in a statement. Facebook says that Apple's new policy will force content creators to explore …

Facebook Accuses Apple of Anticompetitive Privacy Policy, Takes Out Full-Page Newspaper Ad
4 years, 3 months ago

Facebook Accuses Apple of Anticompetitive Privacy Policy, Takes Out Full-Page Newspaper Ad

News 18  

Facebook accused rival Apple of engaging in anticompetitive practices on Wednesday, firing another shot in a monthslong standoff between the two tech giants over Apple’s planned privacy changes for iOS14. In response, Apple said its new rules will not require Facebook to change its “approach to tracking users and creating targeted advertising” but instead requires Facebook to give users on …

Facebook feuds with Apple over privacy changes that threaten its advertising business
4 years, 3 months ago

Facebook feuds with Apple over privacy changes that threaten its advertising business

CNN  

CNN Business — Facebook is now waging a public relations effort to attack Apple ahead of new iOS data privacy changes that would make it harder for advertisers to track users, in a possible sign of just how much the social network views the move as a threat to its core business. The newspaper ads coincide with a new section …

Facebook app has now been installed over 5 billion times from Google Play Store
5 years, 5 months ago

Facebook app has now been installed over 5 billion times from Google Play Store

Firstpost  

Until now, only pre-installed Google apps have crossed the five billion install milestone Facebook has crossed five billion app installs on Google Play Store. Until now, only pre-installed Google apps like Google Play, Google Maps, Google Drive, among others have crossed the five billion install milestone. _ In February this year, Facebook saw its base of daily users growing 9 …

Facebook to pay Android users in India and the US to monitor their phone usage
5 years, 9 months ago

Facebook to pay Android users in India and the US to monitor their phone usage

India TV News  

After facing flak for using unethical and discreet ways of collecting user-information, Facebook has decided to pay Android users in India and the US just to monitor how they use their phones. Also, read: Samsung Galaxy M40 with infinity-O display and Snapdragon 675 launched in India To fulfil this purpose, the social networking giant has launched a new app called …

Apple introduces web login, stresses privacy in challenge to Google, Facebook
5 years, 9 months ago

Apple introduces web login, stresses privacy in challenge to Google, Facebook

Firstpost  

By Stephen Nellis - Apple Inc on Monday launched a “Sign In With Apple” function to rival Facebook and Google web login accounts, drawing a contrast with rivals by stressing protection of users’ private information. When users sign in with their Google or Facebook Inc profiles to third-party apps, the apps often share valuable data with Google and Facebook, a …

Apple briefly punishes Google and Facebook for breaking iOS app rules, relents after negotiations
6 years, 2 months ago

Apple briefly punishes Google and Facebook for breaking iOS app rules, relents after negotiations

India Today  

Nearly a day after Google took down its controversial data gathering app from iOS after Apple punished Facebook for the same by revoking its enterprise certificate, Apple has shutdown Google's internal apps on iOS as a form of punishment for violating its developer policy. Facebook's access restored Apart from Google, Apple also restored the enterprise certificate to Facebook, nearly two …

Apple restores Facebook’s app-testing access after privacy dispute
6 years, 2 months ago

Apple restores Facebook’s app-testing access after privacy dispute

CNN  

New York CNN Business — Apple has restored Facebook’s access to a private section of the App Store after the social network released an app that violated Apple’s policies. Apple pulled Facebook’s enterprise certification Wednesday after discovering Facebook released a research app to the public using that hidden part of the store. Unlike Google’s Android operating system, Apple does not …

Apple busts Facebook for distributing data-sucking app
6 years, 2 months ago

Apple busts Facebook for distributing data-sucking app

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Apple says Facebook can no longer distribute an app that paid users, including teenagers, to extensively track their phone and web use. “I don’t think they make it very clear to users precisely what level of access they were granting when they gave permission,” mobile app security researcher Will Strafach said Wednesday. In contrast to the Facebook …

Facebook paid teens to sell privacy; ejected by Apple from business app program
6 years, 2 months ago

Facebook paid teens to sell privacy; ejected by Apple from business app program

Live Mint  

LONDON :Apple Inc said on Wednesday it had banned Facebook Inc from a program designed to let businesses control iPhones used by their employees, saying the social networking company had improperly used it to track the web-browsing habits of teenagers. The app used Apple's business tools to ask for an iPhone user's permission to install so-called virtual private network software …

Facebook paid $20 a month to teens to get complete access to their data: Report
6 years, 2 months ago

Facebook paid $20 a month to teens to get complete access to their data: Report

Firstpost  

UPDATE: Hours after the Facebook Research Programme app was reported, the social media giant has now said that it is officially taking the research programme app off Apple. For obvious reasons, the Facebook Research app would then also be in violation of Apple’s policies as most of its program code seems to be taken lock, stock from Onavo’s code. Representational …

Facebook is secretly paying some users around Rs 1,400 per month to use a data sniffing app
6 years, 2 months ago

Facebook is secretly paying some users around Rs 1,400 per month to use a data sniffing app

India Today  

It is no secret that Facebook loves to get its hands on data from its users. Instead of distributing the app via the app store or via Apple's TestFlight beta testing program, Facebook reportedly used three beta testing services-- Applause, BetaBound and uTest -- to distribute the app. The program has been referred to as "Project Atlas" since mid-2018, when …

Facebook, Google Draw Scrutiny Over Apps That Collected Data From Teens
6 years, 2 months ago

Facebook, Google Draw Scrutiny Over Apps That Collected Data From Teens

NPR  

Facebook, Google Draw Scrutiny Over Apps That Collected Data From Teens Enlarge this image toggle caption Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images In the latest revelation to raise privacy concerns about Silicon Valley's tech titans, reports have surfaced that Facebook and Google offered adults and teens gift cards for installing apps that would let the companies collect data on their …

Facebook tracks data of Android users even if they do not have an account
6 years, 2 months ago

Facebook tracks data of Android users even if they do not have an account

Firstpost  

At least 61 percent apps automatically transfer data to Facebook the moment a user opens the app. It was found that, “At least 61 percent of the tested apps automatically transfer data to Facebook the moment a user opens the app. App developers share data with Facebook through the Facebook Software Development Kit, a set of software development tools that …

Facebook stops third-party apps from stealing users' data
6 years, 11 months ago

Facebook stops third-party apps from stealing users' data

The Quint  

San Francisco, April 25 Facebook has finally begun its crackdown on third-party apps from stealing, sharing or spamming your data without permission from its platform as well as from Instagram. In a post on its developers' page late on Tuesday, Facebook said the new apps "created from today onwards will not have access to publish posts to Facebook as the …

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