Security News

Facebook will stop mining contacts with your 2FA number
2019-12-23 11:03

Facebook clearly likes to use as much of your personal data as it feels it can, and that includes the phone number linked to your 2FA setting.

Man jailed for $122 million scam that fooled Google and Facebook
2019-12-23 10:35

Lithuanian Evaldas Rimasauskas has been sentenced to five years in jail for successfully defrauding two US companies out of $122 million.

Database Left 267 Million Facebook IDs Exposed: Report
2019-12-20 19:18

Security Researchers Say Criminal Group Scraped Phone Numbers and Other DataAn unsecured Elasticsearch database exposed the identities and phone numbers of over 267 million Facebook users for...

Facebook Wins an EU Privacy Ruling
2019-12-20 14:04

Will Dispute Over Sharing European's Data With US Continue?Facebook's sharing of data of European users with the U.S. is legal and provides enough protections, the legal adviser to the EU's top...

Exposed Database Stored Information on 267 Million Facebook Users
2019-12-20 13:51

An unprotected Elasticsearch database that was accessible from the Internet was recently found to store information on over 267 million Facebook users, Comparitech reveals. read more

Five years for the man who scammed Facebook and Google out of $120m by cunning use of email
2019-12-20 12:00

Lithuanian bloke gets half a decade for the mother of all phishing schemes A Lithuanian hacker will spend the next five years behind bars for masterminding a massive $120m (£92.05m) business email...

Facebook’s location tracking policy still worries US Senators
2019-12-20 11:37

Does Facebook continue to track the locations of its users even when they’ve told it not to? Yes!

267M Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers Exposed Online
2019-12-19 21:47

Researchers believe that criminals were able to obtain personal information for millions of Facebook users.

Lithuanian Man Sentenced to Prison Over BEC Scheme Targeting Facebook, Google
2019-12-19 19:34

Evaldas Rimasauskas, a Lithuanian national involved in a highly profitable business email compromise (BEC) scheme that targeted Google and Facebook, has been sentenced to 5 years in prison, the...