Security News

Facebook ‘regrets’ balloons and confetti triggered by earthquake posts
2018-08-10 10:21

Facebook apologizes for animated confetti and balloons that appeared on "I'm safe" posts during the Lombok earthquake.

Facebook wants to be the future of online banking
2018-08-08 14:30

Facebook says to banks: tell us who your customers are, and we'll get them talking to you in Messenger.

Facebook Open Sources Fizz — TLS 1.3 Library For Speed and Security
2018-08-07 12:18

Facebook has open sourced Fizz—a library designed to help developers implement TLS 1.3 protocol with all recommended security and performance related configurations. Since late last month, Google...

Facebook Open Sources TLS 1.3 Library
2018-08-07 11:42

Facebook on Monday announced the open source availability of Fizz, a TLS library written in C++ 14 that includes the new generation of Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.3). read more

Facebook Asks Big Banks to Share Customer Details
2018-08-07 01:51

Facebook has asked major US banks to share customer data to allow it to develop new services on the social network's Messenger texting platform, a banking source told AFP on Monday. Facebook had...

Facebook cracks opens its bottle of Fizz – a carbonated TLS 1.3 lib
2018-08-06 16:00

Crypto-code unleashed to inflict security, performance and stability on devs Looking for a TLS 1.3 library? Facebook has you covered. On Monday, the ads and data peddler plans to release Fizz, a...

Facebook CSO Alex Stamos leaves to join Stanford Uni
2018-08-02 18:30

Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos has announced that he’s leaving the company on August 17 and will be joining Stanford University full-time as a teacher and researcher. “I have had the...

Facebook bans midterm-meddling accounts and pages
2018-08-02 13:53

Facebook says it has removed 32 Pages and accounts from Facebook and Instagram for violating its policies.

Facebook's security boss is offski. Not to worry, it has 'embedded security' in all divisions
2018-08-02 12:31

Alex Stamos's replacement not yet announced Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos is leaving the social network to work on information warfare at Stanford University. The social network has...

Facebook shuts off user data access for hundreds of thousands of apps
2018-08-02 10:36

The app review deadline has come and gone and Facebook has now cut off API access to those apps that failed to submit.