Collaborate Disseminate
A Taiwanese bug hunter says that he will livestream his attempt to delete Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page this weekend. Chang Chi-yuan is something of a minor celebrity in Taiwan, having regularly publicised security holes in online services, and… Continue reading Zuckerberg’s Facebook page? I’ll livestream its deletion, says hacker
Put down that “Bob Smith” fake account and back off, Facebook told the Memphis Police Department, waving its real-names policy in the air. Continue reading Facebook scolds police for using fake accounts to snoop on citizens
Though the bug was present for over a year, Twitter hasn’t found any DMs or protected tweets that were delivered to the wrong developer. Continue reading Millions of Twitter DMs may have been exposed by year-long bug
The EU justice commissioner said she’s out of patience. Also, she quit Facebook because it’s a “channel of dirt.” Continue reading Facebook faces sanctions if it drags its feet on data transparency
The social network is trying to protect candidates, elected officials and their staff from “hackers and foreign adversaries”. Continue reading How Facebook wants to protect political campaigners from hacking
The social network is expanding its effort to stamp out fake news. Continue reading Deepfake pics and videos set off Facebook’s fake news detector
Like a good junior programmer, Facebook’s AI is cutting its teeth with a bit of bug fixing. Continue reading Facebook’s robot coders step into the future of programming
“I can send a picture where all of us are together,” says “Olivia,” before sending a porn URL. Tell kids not to click! Continue reading Beware: WhatsApp scammers target children with ‘Olivia’ porn message
They also appear to be more privacy-wary, with 64% changing their settings, comparing to just a third of older users. Continue reading Younger Facebook users 4 times more likely to delete app, study shows
Whiplr, a naughty, naughty little app, has now secured passwords with “one-way encryption” and is “adding more security measures”. Continue reading Fetish app put users’ identities at risk with plain-text passwords