Shared Links (weekly) Oct. 2, 2022

Shared Links (weekly) Oct. 2, 2022

Linked – Facebook will reveal who uploaded your contact info for ad targeting
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Linked – Facebook will reveal who uploaded your contact info for ad targeting

This should be interesting… “Starting February 28th, Facebook’s “Why am I seeing this?” button in the drop-down menu of feed posts will reveal more than the brand that paid for the ad, some biographical details they targeted and if they’d uploaded your contact info. Facebook will start to show when your contact info was uploaded,…

Linked – Has paying the ransom become business as usual?
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Linked – Has paying the ransom become business as usual?

This post is full of bad news like this: Radware released its 2018 Executive Application and Network Security Report. For the first time in the survey’s five-year history, a majority of executives (53%) reported paying a hacker’s ransom following a cyber attack. Ouch. Like most hacking/scam/spam tools, they are usually popular because they work. Ransomware…