Facebook starts warning users of state-sponsored attacks against their accounts
Facebook will begin alerting its users when their account is being targeted or compromised by an attacker suspected of working on behalf of a nation-state.“While we have …
Facebook tries to help advertisers and users with new ad control options
The ads you see on Facebook are set to become even more targeted, as the social network’s interest-based advertising, which they have been rolling out for the past year, …
Researchers get $100k for detecting emerging class of C++ bugs
Facebook has awarded $100,000 to a team of researchers from Georgia Tech for their discovery of a new method for identifying “bad-casting” vulnerabilities that …
Free tools for detecting Hacking Team malware in your systems
“Worried that you might have been targeted with Hacking Team spyware, but don’t know how to find out for sure? IT security firm Rook Security has released Milano, …
Popular Android games unmasked as phishing tools
“ESET researchers have discovered a new, ingenious, yet very simple Facebook phishing scheme: playable Android games that, before they are started, ask users to enter …
Facebook slowly fine-tuning its popular ThreatExchange
Facebook’s ThreatExchange, which was unveiled this February, is apparently a hit with organizations, and they are vocal about the ways they believe it could be …
Facebook introduces end-to-end encryption for notifications
Facebook is testing out an experimental new feature that will enable people to add OpenPGP public keys to their profile, and gives users the option of receiving notification …
European Internet users urged to protect themselves against Facebook tracking
In the wake of the revelations about Facebook’s tracking of users who do not own a Facebook account, the Belgian Privacy Commission has issued a set of recommendations …
How to keep your Facebook account secure
When last November Facebook asked users to comment the proposed changes to the social network’s terms of use, data policy, and cookies policy, it also introduced Privacy …
Payments via Facebook Messenger soon to be a reality
A few months from now, US-based users of Facebook’s Messenger app will be able to send and receive money via it for free, the company has announced on Tuesday. The …
Facebook worm spreads by leveraging cloud services
Facebook users are in danger of having their computers turned in a bot by a worm that spreads via the social network. The worm, identified as belonging to the Kilim malware …
Unpatched security vulnerabilities affecting Facebook
A web security researcher from Portugal has discovered several vulnerabilities affecting Facebook that he considers to be serious, but hasn’t had much success convincing …
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