Security News

Privacy pitfalls of Facebook using your location to suggest friends (Help Net Security)
2016-06-28 20:39

If you are a Facebook user and you haven’t guessed by now that it will sometimes suggest “friends” based on the fact that you happened to be at the same place at the same time, you should know...

Facebook Using Physical Location to Suggest Friends (Schneier on Security)
2016-06-28 11:56

This could go badly: "People You May Know are people on Facebook that you might know," a Facebook spokesperson said. "We show you people based on mutual friends, work and education information,...

How attackers can hijack your Facebook account (Help Net Security)
2016-06-16 21:59

Positive Technologies researchers have demonstrated that knowing a user’s phone number and how to exploit a vulnerability in the SS7 network is enough to hijack that user’s Facebook account. As...