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Ramadan Kareem from ITQ.

Coronavirus misinformation is flooding the internet and experts are calling on the public to practise "information hygiene". We have to be more vigilant when it comes to receiving information and only trust known and credible sources. If unsure whether the information is true, do your research. Or better yet, do not share it as you might be doing more harm than good.

Here is how coronavirus ‘deniers’ are using Facebook, WhatsApp and YouTube to spread conspiracy theories and misinformation about the deadly disease.

How coronavirus 'deniers' are using Facebook, WhatsApp and YouTube to spread conspiracy theories and misinformation about the deadly disease Coronavirus 'deniers' are using Facebook, WhatsApp and YouTube to spread conspiracy theories and misinformation about the deadly disease. The UK-based charity the Center for Countering Digital Hate has been tracking 50 social media accounts that are peddling health-related misinformation. These foru...

Facebook is temporarily banning advertisements for medical face masks as part of an effort to prevent use of its platform to exploit people's concerns about the new coronavirus.

The ban covers advertisements on the social media platform as well as commercial listings on Facebook Marketplace, the company said. Facebook said it would begin to enforce the ban over the next few days.

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Facebook bans ads for medical face masks amid coronavirus outbreak Facebook is temporarily banning advertisements for medical face masks as part of an effort to prevent use of its platform to exploit people's concerns about the new coronavirus. The ban covers advertisements on the social media platform as well as commercial listings on Facebook Marketplace, the com...

A billion-plus computers, phones, and other devices are said to suffer a chip-level security vulnerability that can be exploited by nearby miscreants to snoop on victims’ encrypted Wi-Fi traffic.

The flaw was branded KrØØk by the bods at Euro infosec outfit ESET who discovered it. An eavesdropper doesn’t have to be logged into the target device’s wireless network to exploit KrØØk. If successful, the miscreant can take repeated snapshots of the device’s wireless traffic as if it were on an open and insecure Wi-Fi. These snapshots may contain things like URLs of requested websites, personal information in transit, and so on.

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Wi-Fi of more than a billion PCs, phones, gadgets can be snooped on You're using HTTPS, SSH, VPNs… right? A billion-plus computers, phones, and other devices are said to suffer a chip-level security vulnerability that can be exploited by nearby miscreants to snoop on victims' encrypted Wi-Fi traffic. The flaw was branded KrØØk by the bods at Euro infosec outfit