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Facebook Smackdown: UK Seeks 'Digital Gangster' Regulation
2019-02-20 14:03

But Can New Laws and Greater Oversight Fix UK's 'Fake News' Challenges?Technology giants stand accused by a U.K. parliamentary committee of risking democracy in pursuit of profit, acting as...

Facebook tracks users it thinks may harm its employees
2019-02-20 11:17

Threat makers are sometimes geolocated to determine how credible their threats are, as in, are they near enough to really attack?

Facebook flaw could have allowed an attacker to hijack accounts
2019-02-19 16:59

The CSRF bypass flaw has now been fixed, and the researcher who discovered it has netted $25,000.

Facebook acts like a law-breaking ‘digital gangster’, says official report
2019-02-19 11:47

Facebook considers itself to be “ahead of and beyond the law,” UK lawmakers said in a report about "disinformation and 'fake news.'"

'Digital Gangsters': UK Wants Tougher Rules for Facebook
2019-02-18 19:18

British lawmakers issued a scathing report Monday that calls for tougher rules to keep Facebook and other tech firms from acting like "digital gangsters" and intentionally violating data privacy...

Facebook's Leaky Data Bucket: App Stored User Data Online
2019-02-18 10:48

Android App Left User Data Open Without Authentication or TLS/SSLA security consultancy discovered Facebook user data exposed in two different places online without authentication or encryption....

How to Hack Facebook Accounts? Just Ask Your Targets to Open a Link
2019-02-18 09:33

It's 2019, and just clicking on a specially crafted URL would have allowed an attacker to hack your Facebook account without any further interaction. Well, if you have landed here to learn how you...

US Facebook Fine Over Privacy Could Be in Billions: Reports
2019-02-18 06:27

A US investigation into privacy violations by Facebook could result in a record fine running to billions of dollars, media reports said Friday. read more

Ultra-Sneaky Phishing Scam Swipes Facebook Credentials
2019-02-15 15:27

Researchers warn that the phishing campaign looks "deceptively realistic."