Security News

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...

Me-OUCH! Facebook shuts accounts over image of cat wearing suit and tie (Naked Security)
2016-10-05 10:28

Maybe it mistook the cat for a privacy lawsuit-bearing lawyer from Belgium.