Security News

Adware Spreading Via Social Engineering, Facebook Messenger (Threatpost)
2017-08-24 18:15

Attackers have taken to Facebook Messenger with a combination of social engineering and malicious JavaScript to spread adware.

Beware of Windows/MacOS/Linux Virus Spreading Through Facebook Messenger (The Hackers News)
2017-08-24 09:31

If you came across any Facebook message with a video link sent by anyone, even your friend — just don’t click on it. Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have spotted an ongoing cross-platform...

Facebook Awards $100K to Researchers for Credential Spearphishing Detection Method (Threatpost)
2017-08-21 18:28

Researchers who identified a real-time way to detect credential spearphishing attacks in enterprise settings won $100,000 from Facebook last week.

Facebook Awards $100,000 Prize for Spear-Phishing Detection Method (Security Week)
2017-08-18 09:45

Facebook announced on Thursday the winners of its 2017 Internet Defense Prize. A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory...

Game of Thrones and HBO — Twitter, Facebook Accounts Hacked (The Hackers News)
2017-08-17 01:06

The Game of Thrones hacking saga continues, but this time it's the HBO's and GOT's official Twitter and Facebook accounts got compromised, rather than upcoming episodes. As if the leak of episodes...

Facebook Covertly Launches A Photo-Sharing App In China (The Hackers News)
2017-08-14 06:42

The Chinese market is no doubt a pot of gold for big technology giants with over 700 million internet users, but the Chinese government heavily controls the Internet within its borders through its...

Obscuring malicious Facebook links using the Open Graph Protocol (Help Net Security)
2017-08-07 19:00

Most users click on links popping up in their Facebook News Feed without thinking twice about it, but it’s good to keep in mind that they can lead to malicious sites. Here’s an example of one...

Facebook Security Boss: Empathy, Inclusion Must Come to Security (Threatpost)
2017-07-26 18:33

At Black Hat, Facebook CSO Alex Stamos' keynote message was one of bringing empathy and inclusion to security, and that it's time to stop being insular.

Week in review: NotPetya, Facebook to inspect private messages, new issue of (IN)SECURE (Help Net Security)
2017-07-03 01:55

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: With ransomware, pay up if you want to keep paying So there you are, staring at a locked computer screen demanding a...

Facebook moderators can inspect private messages of users suspected of terror links (Help Net Security)
2017-06-30 18:11

Pressured by European governments, Facebook, Twitter and Google are trying to tackle the extremist propaganda and recruitment on their social networks and sites. It’s an endeavour for which the...