Security News

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.

Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years
2019-03-21 15:17

Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees -- in some cases going back to 2012, KrebsOnSecurity has...

Man Pleads Guilty Over $100M BEC Scheme Targeting Google, Facebook
2019-03-20 18:01

A 50-year-old Lithuanian citizen has pleaded guilty over his role in a business email compromise (BEC) scheme in which Google and Facebook employees were tricked into wiring a total of more than...

How the Google and Facebook outages could impact application security
2019-03-20 07:00

With major outages impacting Gmail, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram recently, consumers are right to be concerned over the security of their private data. While details of these outages haven’t...

Court: Embarrassing leaks of internal Facebook emails are fishy
2019-03-19 11:50

The leaks point to a plot, a Calif. court said, ordering pikini app maker Six4Three to hand over its lawyers' chats with the ICO.

Facebook-Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal: Your data still isn't secure
2019-03-15 19:49

On the one-year anniversary of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, Dan Patterson advises companies to stay vigilant and keep data locked down and secure.

Ep. 023 – Facebook promises and Google Chrome patches [PODCAST]
2019-03-15 12:41

Here's the latest Naked Security podcast - listen now, and tell your friends and colleagues about us, too!

Facebook outage coincides with (or causes?) 3m new Telegram users
2019-03-15 11:57

A worldwide, nearly day-long outage at Facebook led to Telegram having a busy, busy day.

Prosecutors Probe Facebook's Data Deals
2019-03-14 13:48

New York Grand Jury Subpoenas Records in Criminal Probe - ReportFacebook's data deals continue to be probed. A criminal investigation of Facebook by federal prosecutors in New York has resulted in...