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Facebook said Tuesday it shut down more than 2,600 fake accounts linked to Iran, Russia, Macedonia and Kosovo and aiming to influence political sentiment in various parts of the world. read more

Facebook last week announced that it introduced new settings designed to make it easier for white hat hackers to test the security of its mobile applications. read more

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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....

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

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...

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 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