Security News

Facebook Marketplace Flaw Revealed Seller's Exact Location
2019-04-23 12:18

Privacy Peril: Thieves Use Location Data to 'Shop' for High-Value ItemsFacebook has fixed a security vulnerability in its digital marketplace that could have been abused to identify the precise...

Regulator to Facebook: Move Fast But Stop Breaking Things
2019-04-22 13:18

FTC Reportedly Eyes Holding Mark Zuckberberg Personally Accountable for Privacy"Move fast and break things," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg once said of his company's internal motto. But regulators...

Three-Fourths of Consumers Don’t Trust Facebook, Threatpost Poll Finds
2019-04-19 19:45

On the heels of several Facebook data privacy snafus this week - and over the past year - users no longer trust the platform.

Facebook: we logged 100x more Instagram plaintext passwords than we thought
2019-04-19 14:58

Facebook has updated 'tens of thousands of plaintext Instagram passwords ended up in logfile' to say it was more like a million.

Facebook Collected Email Contacts of 1.5 Million Users Without Consent
2019-04-19 12:54

Facebook has admitted to uploading the email contacts of up to 1.5 million users over a period of three years without gaining either the user or the contacts' prior consent. read more

Facebook Password, Email Contact Mishandling Worsens
2019-04-19 12:03

Millions of Instagram Users Affected by Plain-Text Password StorageTwo security issues disclosed by Facebook over the past month are worse than first thought, adding to a harrowing series of...

Facebook Password, Email Contact Mishandling Deepens
2019-04-19 08:03

Millions of Instagram Users Affected by Plain-Text Password StorageTwo security issues disclosed by Facebook over the past month are worse than first thought, adding to a harrowing series of...

Facebook Stored Millions of Instagram Users' Passwords in Plaintext
2019-04-18 19:33

Facebook late last month revealed that the social media company mistakenly stored passwords for "hundreds of millions" of Facebook users in plaintext, including "tens of thousands" passwords of...

Who's using Mueller Report Day to bury bad news? If you guessed Facebook, you're right: Millions more passwords stored in plaintext
2019-04-18 18:23

Wham, bam, gee thanks, Instagram While journalists and netizens are distracted digesting the heavily redacted 400-plus-page Mueller report, released within the past few hours, today will be a good...

Poll: Facebook Harvests Email Contacts for 1.5M Users – Is Enough, Enough?
2019-04-18 18:03

Take our short poll on how far Facebook can push its luck.