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Hackers Target Users with “Facebook Account Recovery” Phishing Message

Researchers have spotted a j.mp shortened URL being shared by fake accounts within Facebook recently targeting users with phishing link. Hackers are sending a spam messages from a phony account stating to be “Facebook recovery” notifying users that their accounts committed abuse and will likely be disabled if they don’t act on given commands. After a […]

Mom Shames 13-year-old Daughter for acting slutty on Facebook

Denver mom Val Starks becomes enraged and publicly humiliates daughter on Facebook for posing as 19 and posting indecent pictures — Video has more than 10 million views. A Denver mother’s video on Facebook has become a viral rage after she scolded her 13-year-old daughter for posting lewd pictures and claiming her age was 19. Valerie […]

Hackers charge $90 to hack Gmail, $200 to $350 for Facebook, WhatsApp

Can you believe there are several online forums who actually claim to provide hackers in case you want to get someone’s Website, Facebook, Gmail, WhatsApp, Netflix etc hacked? The grand and Mysterious “World Wide Web” can be a dilemma for the naive, searching for the desired items may open a Pandora box of forbidden gifts. It is no […]

Facebook users hit with See ‘What Happens to this Pregnant Lady’ video scam

Facebook’s astonishing “Video Scam” – ‘See What Happens to this Pregnant Lady’ inappropriately misusing “shock element” for users. A post appeared recently on Facebook, one in line of the many similar “claim-to-be-shocking-you posts” features a pregnant lady at the beach, promising to amaze viewers upon clicking the “Play” icon, warning it to be revealing and disturbing, what happens […]

How This Facebook Glitch Gave Me a Massive Heart Attack

It happened about two hours ago. Facebook nearly gave me and my friend Arpit, the co-founders of fossBytes, a massive heart-attack. Yes, this happened with us. Keep reading. It’s a true story. It was a usual day at work and we were finished with today’s work. As it was the second day of Microsoft’s Developer […]

Thug arrested after liking his own ‘Mugshot Wanted’ pic on Facebook

People do dumb things on Facebook, but liking your own picture when it’s posted by the police for an arrest? Come on man! It’s normal to see people updating their status abusing police, giving each other death threats or some sort of revenge stuff, but when Great Falls, Cascade County Crime Stoppers posted a picture of Levi Charles Readon (wanted for Forgery) on […]

Facebook Users Hit with ‘Your Facebook Login is Removed’ Malware Email

Hackers are targeting users with a fake Facebook email tricking them into clicking an attached application to generate a trusted connection to the network— Attachment contains malware. Number of users around the world have reported a new scam from Facebook (which in reality is not from Facebook itself). Users who are scammed have reported an email from Facebook having […]

China Attacks on Facebook Using The Great Cannon

For the past few days, we have been hearing about the Great Cannon. This Great firewall system developed by China is terrorizing the whole internet world by its potential to hijack anything and everything. Now the terror has started to spread its wings and taken it’s first attack on none other than Facebook. It should be […]

Methods used for Facebook hacking and how to protect against it

Facebook is the most used social networking website used by millions of people daily. This is the reason why everyone wants to get in this website and hack it. The most asked question on our website and facebook fan page is “How can I hack a Facebook account?”. There are only few methods which someone […]

Brazil will sue Facebook for blocking picture of indigenous woman

Brazilian Ministry of Culture is planning to sue Facebook on blocking the picture of an Indian woman from 1909 just because her breasts were exposed. The ministry claims that Facebook is illegally exposing its censorship standards on Brazil. Brazil will sue Facebook for blocking picture of indigenous woman Reportedly, Brazilian Cultural Ministry isn’t happy with […]

A CIA Funded Company Reportedly Scanning Chats but Facebook Rejects Claim

Facebook Privacy Debate: A CIA Funded Company Reportedly Scanning Chats but Facebook Rejects the Claim. A developer has claimed on Hacker News that a third-party agency is continuously scanning private chats on Facebook. The developer observed this feature while testing an application that was set up in a non-published area. As a result, unusual activity was […]

Filipino maid rescued from alleged rapist after Facebook plea goes viral

A 28-year-old woman from Philippines who was working as a maid at a house in Bahrain used Facebook to spread the message about herself, the way she was being treated and raped by her boss’s son. We all usually criticize Facebook for spying on people or sharing our data with the government, but there is a […]

Facebook accepts tracking non-users, claims a ‘bug’ made it happened

Facebook can Track Non-Users through ‘a bug’ — Working to fix it as fast as possible. Researchers at Facebook identified a “bug” that allowed them to track people who haven’t ever visited the website. The discovery was made public by Richard Allen, the European policy vice president of the social networking giant, in a blogpost […]

Prison Guards Quit Job After Beaten Inmate Photo Went Viral on Facebook

Two officers from Georgia’s correction facility had to resign when the picture of a beaten teen inmate having a leash bent around his neck was posted online on Facebook seemingly with a contraband mobile phone. According to authorities, two prisoners from the Al Burruss Correctional Training Centre involved in the March 27 incident were transferred […]

Facebook Sued for Gathering World’s Biggest Stock of facial-recognition data

Facebook is back in the news, this time again for violating its users’ privacy by gathering a huge mass of facial data. A class-action lawsuit has been filed against the social media giant last week and it is claimed that the Facebook’s data-collection program titled automatic face-tagging feature has helped Facebook create “the largest privately held stash […]

Mobilize to socialize: Facebook Integrates WhatsApp into ‘Facebook for Android’

First look of WhatsApp’s Integration on Facebook for Android Finally Revealed. Fans have waited for more than a year to get the first glimpse of Facebook’s maiden integration with WhatsApp. Recently, we disclosed WhatsApp’s idea to integrate voice calls into the app’s features and now this is big news for the fans. After buying WhatsApp, Facebook […]

Facebook tracks users, even those who don’t use it, says privacy report

Last week the Europen Union commission warned users to leave Facebook if they don’t want to be spied on – Now a Belgian Privacy Commission has also accused the social media giant of tracking individuals, including those who never had a Facebook account. Facebook tracks users even when they log out from their social media account […]