Security News

Facebook password crisis – what to do? [VIDEO]
2019-03-23 01:15

Watch this special edition of Naked Security Live - we answer the questions people have been asking us, like "Should I stay or should I go?"

Critical DoS Bug Bubbles Up in Facebook Fizz TLS 1.3 Project
2019-03-22 20:22

Users of the open-source project should upgrade immediately.

Scammer pleads guilty to fleecing Facebook and Google of $121m
2019-03-22 11:20

Large, worldly tech companies would never fall for a wire transfer invoice scam, would they?

Facebook Mistakenly Stored Millions of Users' Passwords in Plaintext
2019-03-21 18:48

Holy moly, Facebook is again at the center of a new privacy controversy after revealing today that its platform mistakenly kept a copy of passwords for "hundreds of millions" users in plaintext....

Change your Facebook password now!
2019-03-21 18:39

Facebook has done an audit and shocked even itself by finding plaintext passwords in logfiles back to 2012. Change your password now!

Report: Facebook Stored Millions of Passwords in Plaintext
2019-03-21 18:33

Facebook Under Fresh Scrutiny Over How It Stored User PasswordsFacebook has corrected an internal security issue that allowed the company to store millions of user passwords in plaintext that were...

Let's spin Facebook's Wheel of Misfortune! Clack-clack-clack... clack... You've won '100s of millions of passwords stored in plaintext'
2019-03-21 17:52

Credentials logged for years is antisocial network's latest Zuck-up Facebook today admitted it stored "some" of its addicts' account passwords in a plaintext readable format. For "some", read...

Facebook Stored Passwords of Hundreds of Millions Users in Plain Text
2019-03-21 16:53

Facebook today admitted to have stored the passwords of hundreds of millions of its users in plain text, including the passwords of Facebook Lite, Facebook, and Instagram users.  read more

Facebook Pays Big Bounty for DoS Flaw in Fizz TLS Library
2019-03-21 16:18

While Facebook’s bug bounty program does not typically cover denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities, the social media giant has decided to award a significant bounty for a serious flaw affecting...

Facebook Stored Passwords in Plain Text For Years
2019-03-21 16:14

The social media giant said that it is notifying users whose passwords it stored in plain text, which made them accessible for Facebook employees to view.