Facebook and GitHub test new account recovery option
Facebook and GitHub have partnered to provide GitHub users who employ two-factor authentication an easier way to recover access to their account in case they get locked out of …
Facebook gets physical for safer logins
Facebook has been offering the two factor authentication login option for a while now, and is now trying to make its use easier than ever before. “Most people get their …
UK users bombarded with scammy offers via Facebook, WhatsApp
Since the beginning of the year, survey scammers have mounted a veritable onslaught against Facebook and WhatsApp users from the UK. The lure comes in the form of a fake free …
Locky hidden in image file hitting Facebook, LinkedIn users
Malware masquerading as an image file is still spreading on Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social networks. Check Point researchers have apparently discovered how cyber crooks …
Malware masquerading as an image spreads via Facebook
Malware spreading via Facebook has become a rare occurrence, but it does still occasionally crop up. The latest instance has been noticed by malware researcher Bart Blaze, and …
Facebook, Google ban fake news sources from their ad networks
Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s dismissive attitude regarding the claim that Facebook had an inappropriate impact on the US elections, the company has moved to bar sources of …
OS analysis tool osquery finally available for Windows
Nearly two years after Facebook open sourced osquery, the social networking giant has made available an osquery developer kit for Windows, allowing security teams to build …
WhatsApp will share your phone number with Facebook
For the first time in four years, WhatsApp is updating its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and the big news is that the messaging service will share users’ phone …
How to steal money from Instagram, Google and Microsoft
Some account options deployed by Instagram, Google and Microsoft can be misused to steal money from the companies by making them place phone calls to premium rate numbers, …
Secret Conversations: End-to-end encryption for Facebook Messenger
After integrating Open Whisper Systems’ Signal Protocol into WhatsApp earlier this year, Facebook has done the same to the Facebook Messenger app, and called the feature …
Privacy pitfalls of Facebook using your location to suggest friends
If you are a Facebook user and you haven’t guessed by now that it will sometimes suggest “friends” based on the fact that you happened to be at the same …
How attackers can hijack your Facebook account
Positive Technologies researchers have demonstrated that knowing a user’s phone number and how to exploit a vulnerability in the SS7 network is enough to hijack that …