Facebook Bans Spy-for-Hire Firms for Targeting 50K People
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, said that the seven banned actors run fake accounts on its platforms to deceive users and plant malware on targets’ phones.
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Navy Warship’s Facebook Page Hacked to Stream ‘Age of Empires’ Gaming
The destroyer-class USS Kidd streamed hours of game play in a funny incident that has serious cybersecurity ramifications.
Read MoreFacebook Blames Outage on Faulty Router Configuration
One easily disproved conspiracy theory linked the ~six-hour outage to a supposed data breach tied to a Sept. 22 hacker forum ad for 1.5B Facebook user records.
Read MoreFacebook Outage Drags Down Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Oculus VR
They were all flat on their faces for hours on Monday, throwing off DNS error messages or other server-related errors.
Read MoreTikTok, GitHub, Facebook Join Open-Source Bug Bounty
The initiative, run by HackerOne, aims to uncover dangerous code repository bugs that end up going viral across the application supply-chain.
Read MoreAndroid Malware ‘FlyTrap’ Hijacks Facebook Accounts
Coupon codes for Netlifx or Google AdWords? Voting for the best football team? Beware: Malicious apps offering such come-ons could inflict a new trojan.
Read More533M Facebook Accounts Leaked Online: Check if You Are Exposed
An estimated 32 million, of the half-billion of Facebook account details posted online, were tied to US-based accounts.
Read MoreFacebook Disrupts Spy Effort Aimed at Uyghurs
The social-media giant took down legions of fake profiles aimed at spreading espionage malware.
Read MoreFacebook: Malicious Chrome Extension Developers Scraped Profile Data
Facebook has sued two Chrome devs for scraping user profile data – including names, user IDs and more.
Read MoreMillions of Social Profiles Leaked by Chinese Data-Scrapers
A cloud misconfig by SocialArks exposed 318 million records gleaned from Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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