Beware of fake Facebook “Copyright Violations” warnings
The latest Facebook-themed phishing messages doing rounds are trying to trick users into believing they are “making copyright violations” on their Facebook page. …
Facebook unveils platform for exchanging security threat information
Facebook and sever other big Internet and tech companies have banded together to create ThreatExchange, a platform for exchanging security threat information. …
Fake Facebook Account Suspended emails lead to Trojans, ransomware
Fake Facebook account suspension emails are doing rounds of inboxes around the world, trying to convince the recipients that their account has been temporarily disabled due to …
Hottest Snapchats scam spreads on Facebook
A spam campaign revealing the 10 Hottest Snapchats is a new entry to the long list of Facebook scams flooding the social network. Bitdefender’s Labs have now blacklisted …
Thousands fall for Free Audi R8 Facebook scam
Over 200,000 Facebook users have so far fallen prey to a like-farming scam promising two free Audi R8 cars, and thousands are joining the victim list each hour, according to …
Facebook updates terms and policies, introduces interactive privacy guides
Facebook continues with its plan to make the social network’s privacy settings easier to understand, and has introduced Privacy Basics. Private Basics is a page where …
Facebook open sources Proxygen, C++ HTTP framework + server
After having open sourced the OS analysis tool osquery a week ago, Facebook has announced on Wednesday that Proxygen – a collection of C++ HTTP libraries and an …
Facebook embraces Tor users, sets up onion address
While in the past Facebook has occasionally blocked Tor connections because of security considerations, the company has decided it will help Tor users from now on, and …
The psychology of Facebook scam victims
A two-year study of over 850,000 Facebook scams by antivirus software provider Bitdefender has revealed that scammers have infected millions of users with the same repackaged …
Facebook open sources osquery, an OS analysis tool
Facebook has open sourced osquery, a framework that exposes an operating system as a high-performance relational database and allows developers to write SQL-based queries to …
How Facebook prevents account hijacking when old email addresses are recycled
Remember when last summer Yahoo announced they will recycle inactive accounts and offer them to other users? The scheme was more or less successful. Some measures that Yahoo …
Facebook trawls through paste sites for compromised credentials
In the spirit of November as National Cyber Security Awareness Month, Facebook security engineer Chris Long shared how the company discovers that some of its users’ …
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