Security News

Facebook worm spreads by leveraging cloud services (Help Net Security)
2015-03-13 11:39

Facebook users are in danger of having their computers turned in a bot by a worm that spreads via the social network. The worm, identified as belonging to the Kilim malware family, ends on the vict...

Facebook faces class action lawsuit over children's online purchases (Naked Security)
2015-03-12 17:36

Facebook must defend itself against a California class action lawsuit that claims payments taken from children violate state laws.

Facebook to let marketers see what people are talking about (Naked Security)
2015-03-12 12:13

Pick your marketing keyword. Example: "frizz." Facebook's ready to offer (anonymised) data to the anti-frizz marketers about who's saying what.

Unpatched security vulnerabilities affecting Facebook (Help Net Security)
2015-03-11 11:37

A web security researcher from Portugal has discovered several vulnerabilities affecting Facebook that he considers to be serious, but hasn't had much success convincing the company of that, so he sha...

Apple Watch scams target Twitter and Facebook users (Help Net Security)
2015-03-11 07:52

It didn't take long for spammers to jump on the Apple Watch bandwagon - they set up a Twitter account named "Apple Giveaways", and began spamming out messages to random users, telling them they have b...