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Facebook unveils Anonymous Login

At the F8 developers conference on Wednesday, Facebook announced that users will soon be offered the choice to login to third-party apps anonymously. “People tell us …

Facebook begins testing new, simplified privacy settings

If you are a regular Facebook user but you haven’t reviewed your privacy settings in a while, you may have already seen Facebook’s new “privacy …

Record year for Facebook bug hunters

With nearly 15,000 submissions – 687 of which were valid and eligible for awards – 2013 has been a record year for Facebook’s bug bounty program. Add to this …

Facebook boasts of superior threat detection system

Facebook has a new internal threat-catching framework that is fed with disparate data from all over the Internet, different vendors, and Facebook’s internal sources, and …

Aversion to new Facebook News Feed could lead to scams

Facebook has been gradually rolling out a new, more simplified design for users’ News Feed for a while now. It’s a given that some users won’t like the …

“Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 found” video is a scam

Cyber scammers are misusing the public’s interest in the fate of the recently disappeared plane on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 to lure users into filling in online …

Account-hijacking Trojan spreads via Facebook messages

Private messages delivering what seems to be an image are spreading like wildfire on Facebook, as the file in question triggers the download of a Trojan that compromises the …

Facebook security and privacy pitfalls

In this interview, Andrei Serbanoiu, Online Threats Researcher at Bitdefender, discusses Facebook security and privacy pitfalls, the dangers of sharing on the social network, …

Facebook scam promises naked videos of friends, delivers Trojans instead

Bitdefender has discovered that more than 1,000 people have already been tricked into installing Trojan malware after clicking on a new Facebook scam that promises naked …

Scammers turn to Facebook for targeting

Scammers are increasingly taking advantage of Facebook targeting tools and user trust to push cheap pharmaceuticals, designer replicas and other products in a trend …

Android Trojan delivered via Facebook “Suggested Posts”

Researchers have uncovered a potentially massive attack on Android users. This highly elaborate ploy originates on Facebook, where cyber-criminals advertise a series of apps. …

Facebook bug prevents revocation of app permissions

Developers working for privacy software vendor MyPermissions claim to have discovered a critical vulnerability in Facebook’s code. The flaw can be exploited to make it …

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