Malware Disguised As Legit Game Targeted Up To 1 Million Android Users

Innocent souls who wanted nothing more than to enjoy a game called “Cowboy Adventure” may have found their personal information compromised thanks to malware contained within the app. Antivirus service ESET published a post Thursday detailing how an app available on Google Play, the company’s app store for Android devices, was able to grab private information from users. Apparently, “Cowboy

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If You’re Trying To Join ISIS Through Twitter, The FBI Probably Knows About It

WASHINGTON — Twitter has been “very cooperative” with FBI agents looking into individuals affiliated with the Islamic State and other terrorist organizations that use the social network to organize and inspire people within the U.S. to commit terrorist acts, FBI Director James Comey said Thursday. Comey said many terrorist recruits first interact with overseas terrorists on Twitter. Affidavits filed by

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Facebook Introduces New Way To ‘Prioritize’ Your Best Friends

If you have a lot of friends on Facebook, your News Feed can be a confusing jumble of status updates, links and photos. A new update to the social network’s mobile app should alleviate that problem, though. Facebook on Thursday announced new settings that allow users to prioritize which friends and pages are featured in their News Feed. At the

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Is #DontJudgeChallenge Really About Self-Acceptance?

It wouldn’t really be social media movement if there wasn’t a side of controversy. The increasingly popular “#DontJudgeChallenge,” which has blown up on Twitter and Instagram, is no exception. This campaign was, in theory, supposed to be a movement that encouraged self-acceptance and diminished cyberbullying. But it only took a few individuals to shift the focus from celebrating imperfection to

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Here’s A PG-Rated Facebook Alternative For Evangelical Christians

Despite Facebook’s numerous privacy settings and content controls, some find the site too immoral for their taste. In Brazil, a group of evangelical Christians recently took matters into their own hands and built their own social network. The new platform, called Facegloria, launched on June 4 and already has 100,000 users, one of its founders told the Agence France-Presse. The

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