Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2019
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
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
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
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 21, 2019
News problems for Facebook that admitted to have stored the passwords of hundreds of millions of users in plain text. Facebook revealed to have stored the passwords of hundreds of millions of users in plain text, including passwords of Facebook Lite, Facebook, and Instagram users. “As part of a routine security review in January, we […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2019
Security experts at Myki have recently discovered a new phishing campaign that could deceive even most tech-savvy users. The technique relies upon the concept of being able to reproduce a social login prompt in a very realistic format inside an HTML block. Crooks are distributing links to blogs and services that display users “login using […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2019
Facebook paid a $25,000 bounty for a critical cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability that could have been exploited to hijack accounts simply by tricking users into clicki on a link. The white hat hacker who goes online with the moniker “Samm0uda” discovered a critical CSRF vulnerability in Facebook and the social network giant paid a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 01, 2019
Facebook took down hundreds of fake accounts from Iran that were involved in a vast manipulation campaign active in more than 20 countries. Facebook took down 783 inauthentic accounts, pages and groups from Iran that were involved in a vast manipulation campaign active in more than 20 countries. “The world’s biggest social network said it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 30, 2019
Facebook is paying teens $20 a month to use its VPN app, called Facebook Research, that monitors their activity via their mobile devices.Facebook is paying teens $20 a month to use its VPN app, called Facebook Research, that monitors their activity via the mobile devices. 2018 was a terrible year for Facebook that was in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2019
German watchdog is going to ask Facebook changes to protect privacy and personal information of its users. The news was first reported by the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, German regulators are going to request Facebook changes in its platforms aimed at protecting privacy and personal data of its users. The German watchdog want to […]
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