Security News

WhatsApp Blasted by EU Data Protection Group Over Facebook Sharing (Threatpost)
2016-10-31 17:45

The Article 29 Working Party, an EU privacy coalition urges WhatsApp to clarify that user information shared between the company and Facebook is compliant with data protection laws on the books in Europe.

Twitter, Facebook revoke access to social media surveillance software used by cops (Help Net Security)
2016-10-13 18:59

Geofeedia, a US-based company that offers its social media aggregation platform “to a broad range of private and public sector clients”, also numbers among its clients over 500 law enforcement and...

Facebook Bug Bounty Program Pays Out $5 Million in Five Years (Threatpost)
2016-10-13 16:56

Facebook announced this week that its paid out more than $5 million to 900 researchers in the five years since it implemented its bug bounty program.

Facebook Messenger end-to-end encryption rolled out for all users (Help Net Security)
2016-10-05 13:15

Facebook Messenger’s Secret Conversations feature, which allows end-to-end encryption of messages exchanged by two users that have enabled the option, has finally been rolled out to all Messenger...