Social Networks

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2019
Facebook sues data analytics firm Rankwave over alleged data misuse

Facebook sues South Korean data analytics firm Rankwave over alleged data misuse and violation of social network’s rules. Facebook filed a lawsuit against Rankwave in a California State court in Silicon Valley to verify if the analytics firm is violating the rules of the social network giant. Facebook is asking the court to audit the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2019
Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority fined Facebook for Photo API bug

The Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority fined Facebook $270,000 for the Photo API bug that exposed personal photos of 300,000 Turkish users. The Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) has fined Facebook 1.65 million Turkish lira ($270,000) for the Photo API bug that exposed personal photos of 300,000 Turkish users. In December, Facebook announced that […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2019
Facebook funds research on the impact of social media on elections

Facebook is going to fund academic research on the impact of social media on elections, aimed at preventing manipulation of these platforms. Facebook is committed to preventing manipulation of elections through social media by funding research on the impact of social media on elections. Facebook announced the involvement of 60 researchers from 30 academic institutions […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2019
Russian Twitter bot activity increased in the wake Mueller report release

Experts at security firm SafeGuard reported that Russian Twitter bot activity raised up by 286 percent in the wake of the release of the Mueller Report. Experts at security firm SafeGuard reported that Russian Twitter bot activity raised up by 286 percent in the wake of the release of the Mueller Report. Social media platforms […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 21, 2019
60 Million records of LinkedIn users exposed online

Researcher discovered eight unsecured databases exposed online that contained approximately 60 million records of LinkedIn user data. Researcher Sanyam Jain at GDI foundation discovered eight unsecured databases exposed online that contained approximately 60 million records of LinkedIn user data. Most of the data are publicly available, the databases also include the email addresses of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 19, 2019
Facebook admitted to have stored millions of Instagram users’ passwords in plaintext

Other problems for Facebook that admitted to have stored millions of Instagram users’ passwords in plaintext Yesterday, Facebook made the headlines once again for alleged violations of the privacy of its users, the company admitted to have ‘unintentionally’ collected contacts from 1.5 Million email accounts without permission In March, Facebook admitted to have stored the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 18, 2019
Facebook ‘unintentionally’ collected contacts from 1.5 Million email accounts without permission

Facebook made the headlines once again for alleged violations of the privacy of its users, this time collecting contacts from 1.5 Million email accounts without permission. New problems for Facebook, the company collected contacts from 1.5 Million email accounts without user’permission. We recently read about an embarrassing incident involving the social network giant that asked […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 14, 2019
Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook down worldwide

FACEBOOK down: Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp services have gone down in Europe, US, Malaysia, and worldwide leaving millions of users furious. Facebook services including Instagram and Whatsapp are facing a widespread outage. The outage of Facebook services happens one month after the longest outage in history. Users in Europe, Malaysia and some parts of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2019
Experts found 540 Million Facebook user records on unprotected Amazon S3 buckets

The huge trove of Facebook user data was amassed and stored online on unprotected cloud servers by third-party Facebook app developers. Definitively I can tell you that this is an awful period for Facebook and its users. We first read about an embarrassing incident involving the social network giant that asked some newly-registered users to […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 26, 2019
Whitehat settings allow white hat hackers to Test Facebook mobile apps

Facebook introduced new settings designed to make it easier for cyber experts to test the security of its mobile applications. Facebook has announced the implementation of new settings to make it easier for white hat hackers to test the security of its mobile applications. To protect Facebook users, the mobile apps of the company implement […]