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2. Facebook malware - Wikipedia

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   The social media platform and social networking service Facebook has been affected multiple times over its history by intentionally harmful software. Known as malware, these pose particular challenges both to users of the platform as well as to the personnel of the tech-company itself. Fighting the entities that create these is a topic of ...

3. Spectre (security vulnerability) - Wikipedia

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   Spectre (security vulnerability) Spectre is one of the two original transient execution CPU vulnerabilities (the other being Meltdown ), which involve microarchitectural timing side-channel attacks. These affect modern microprocessors that perform branch prediction and other forms of speculation.

4. Computer virus - Wikipedia

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   A computer virus [1] is a type of malware that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code into those programs. [2] [3] If this replication succeeds, the affected areas are then said to be "infected" with a computer virus, a metaphor derived from biological viruses.

5. Timeline of computer viruses and worms - Wikipedia

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   March 26: The Melissa worm was released, targeting Microsoft Word and Outlook -based systems, and creating considerable network traffic. June 6: The ExploreZip worm, which destroys Microsoft Office documents, was first detected. September: the CTX virus is isolated.

6. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social media - Wikipedia

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   t. e. Social media became an active place to interact during the COVID-19 pandemic, following the onset of social distancing. Overall messaging rates had risen by above 50%, according to a study by Facebook's analytics department. Individuals at home used social media to maintain their relationships and access entertainment to pass time faster.

7. Facebook, Instagram Hit by Outage: Thousands of Users ... - AOL

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   UPDATED: Meta’s family of apps including Facebook and Instagram experienced widespread technical problems lasting more than two hours Tuesday, with hundreds of thousands of users logging errors ...