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The Secret app showcases startling confessions about what a person really thinks but isn’t willing to share on sites like Facebook Reports suggest Zuckerberg has had a meeting with the Secret founders If Facebook develops its own app, the move will be a drastic departure from its current stance of not allowing users to display fake names The news […]
According to one of the recent report, NSA is believed to be spying many Facebook users since 2010. NSA used a number of automated techniques to install malwares into users systems. Snowden Leaks: NSA Posed as Facebook to infect computers with malware NSA codenamed these techniques as “TRIBUNE”, executed via a network of malware implant which […]
It is not just the NSA, the infamous snooping authority of the US, that has been collecting data of millions of Americans, many other private companies do the same, according to reports published from theObama administration. On Facebook, there are some 350 million photos uploaded and shared every day.“On YouTube, 100 hours of video is […]
An Egyptian hacker removed Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook timeline cover photo from his account using a private exploit, according to a latest hacker news report. According to news published by The Hacker News, an Egyptian hacker with a nickname “Dr. FarFar” explained how he went about removing the cover image. Using Report abuse option on the […]
The hardcore supporter of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad and the online hacktavist Syrian Electronic Army has made an attempt to hack a number of high profile websites-including Yahoo, Amazon, Facebook and Google-by hacking into the domain management service provider MarkMonitor. It seems as if MarkMonitor was able to block Syrian hackers from causing huge […]
Romanian authorities arrested Marcel Lazăr Lehel, a Romanian suspected of being the notorious hacker Guccifer, on Wednesday in Arad County, Romania. Guccifer’s latest victim was the acting administrator of the US Nuclear Security Agency’s (NNSA), Neile Miller. He is believed to have hacked her email and Facebook accounts. It was not clear if he got […]
Earlier we reported that Facebook will send your conversation data to TV networks and how Facebook stores everything you type on the social network even if the message is not published. Now a lawsuit has been filed by Michael Hurley and Plaintiffs Matthew Campbell in California district court which claims that Facebook reads, stores and shares user’s personal messages from their inbox […]
Facebook detects and stores everything you type on the social network even if the message is not published. Most of us are very cautious about what to post on Facebook, and they, therefore, think a lot before pressing enter to post the content they have written or attached. Well, many of you would love to […]
The like button is a highly interactive feature of social media giant Facebook. A British public-service television broadcaster has however revealed that hackers are hacking accounts of various people and are liking pages which the hacked user has no interest in. Channel4 reports that at one instance, Richard Southard’s account shows that he is among the common […]
An InfoSec company TrustWave has reported that unknown hackers have stolen usernames and passwords of two million accounts at Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo and others high profile companies. The company revealed that hack was a result of a keylogging software installed maliciously on unknown but thousands of personal computers around the globe. The installed malware took screenshots […]
The pro – Assad hackers from Syrian Electronic Army managed to hack official Facebook and Social media accounts of American President Barak Obama and redirecting his official site (barackobama.com) to another page showing ”Hacked by SEA”. Obama’s website was redirected a couple of days ago while his social media accounts were hacked on Monday. SEA managed […]
A motion has been filed today with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court by the U.S Department of Justice. This motion is basically filed for opposing the Tech companies that want to tell users of such companies that their data is being spied by the government. The government in its briefing to the court has said […]
Facebook Will Send Conversation Data To Select TV Networks. According to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal, social networking website Facebook will share the conversation data that relate to the views, comments, likes and actions that are generated by users regarding different TV shows. The aim behind sharing such data is to provide […]
A recent report given by the Daily Mail has revealed that due to the privacy issues, Facebook users are leaving the social platform at an alarming rate. A research report has revealed that around 11 million users have left Facebook and this figure comprises 9 million from the US and around 2 million from Britain. […]
Iranians were surprised to see Social media websites working inside the country without using any proxy server or virtual private network (VPN) but the happiness did not last for long as the sites were blocked again on Tuesday. The sudden opening of social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter was a big surprise inside […]
An Algerian hacker going with the handle of Virus DX has hacked the official Facebook page of Syria‘s largest telecommunication company known as SyriaTel. After taking over the page which has 153,030 likes, the hacker changed its cover picture from SyriaTel official logo to his own cover pictures that shows Algerian flag with Anonymous group […]
We have heard about increase in rate of divorces due to social networking website Facebook but witnessing a horrific crime such as setting an innocent girl on fire for accepting a friend request from another man has hit the news for the first time. In the Indian city of Allahabad, a 22-year-old female University student was […]
A palestanian security research has exposed one of the vulnerability facebook was carrying through. The researcher who calls himself Khalil reported that any person on facebook can post on anyone’s wall, even on the walls of the people that are not added into their friend list. This is some serious kind of vulnerability, but, facebook […]
Last Friday, Facebook disclosed a bug fix which exposed the shadow profile activity of the social network. Packet Storm Security who analysis the security issues of the network has said that they are composing frightening dossiers for both the account holders and the non-account holders. Packet Storm has discovered the vulnerability in the security system of […]
Facebook is now allowing its million of users all around the world to post photo images to their comment box, where you can react to your friend’s status with an image of your own choice. The catchy update was announced by Facebook officials on Wednesday, allowing user to upload images with the help of new “Attach […]
Facebook has announced that it will now introduce clickable hashtags on the social network. Thus, the site will function as the Mark Zucerberg Twitter each time a user clicks on a word with the symbol hash (#), it will be directed to a search page on the subject. According to the company, the feature will be gradually […]