Collaborate Disseminate
The 74 cybercrime groups were offering illicit services – from email spamming tools to stolen credentials – right on Facebook’s platform. Continue reading Facebook Boots 74 Cybercrime Groups From Platform
It’s been a bad week for Facebook users.
First, the social media company was caught asking some of its new users to share passwords for their registered email accounts and now…
…the bad week gets worse with a new privacy breach.
More than half a b… Continue reading 540 Million Facebook User Records Found On Unprotected Amazon Servers
Facebook has introduced a new feature in its platform that has been designed to make it easier for bug bounty hunters to find security flaws in Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram Android applications.
Since almost all Facebook-owned apps by default us… Continue reading New Settings Let Hackers Easily Pentest Facebook, Instagram Mobile Apps
Facebook’s latest screw-up — a programming bug in Facebook website accidentally gave 1,500 third-party apps access to the unposted Facebook photos of as many as 6.8 million users.
Facebook today quietly announced that it discovered a new API bug in it… Continue reading New Facebook Bug Exposed 6.8 Million Users Photos to Third-Party Apps
Late last month Facebook announced its worst-ever security breach that allowed an unknown group of hackers to steal secret access tokens for millions of accounts by taking advantage of a flaw in the ‘View As’ feature.
At the time of the initial disclo… Continue reading 30 Million Facebook Accounts Were Hacked: Check If You’re One of Them
Ex-Facebook security boss: U.S. elections risk becoming ‘World Cup of information warfare’ […] Continue reading Ex-Facebook security boss: U.S. elections risk becoming ‘World Cup of information warfare’
People are still getting over the most controversial data scandal of the year, i.e., Cambridge Analytica scandal, and Facebook is under fire yet again after it emerges that a popular quiz app on the social media platform exposed the private data of up … Continue reading Another Facebook Quiz App Left 120 Million Users’ Data Exposed
Facebook admits as many as 14 millions of its users who thought they’re sharing content privately with only friends may have inadvertently shared their posts with everyone because of a software bug.
Facebook said in front of Congress in March over the… Continue reading Facebook bug changed 14 million users’ default privacy settings to public
After being embroiled into controversies over its data sharing practices, it turns out that Facebook had granted inappropriate access to its users’ data to more than 60 device makers, including Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry, and Samsung.
Accord… Continue reading Facebook Accused of Giving Over 60 Device-Makers Deep Access to User Data
Facebook pays millions of dollars every year to researchers and bug hunters to stamp out security holes in its products and infrastructure, but following Cambridge Analytica scandal, the company today launched a bounty program to reward users for repor… Continue reading Facebook Offering $40,000 Bounty If You Find Evidence Of Data Leaks