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Facebook has been trying its hands on various things (the new dating app is proof of it), and this plan also included a cryptocurrency platform. Taking the project seriously with an aim to explore the crypto world, Facebook is now taking further steps in the venture. It is suggested that Facebook is talking to various […]
Facebook announced last year that a dating feature will be added to its app to help people in initiating “long-term relationships — not just for hookups.” Since then we haven’t seen many updates in the feature until now. At this year’s F8 event, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook Dating is coming to 14 more countries in […]
Over the past years, Facebook’s reputation has taken a toll and I don’t think I need to list down the endless series of scandals. At its annual F8 Developer Conference, the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of steps that Facebook is planning to take to give its services a much-needed push. Before I […]
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is creative, and the fact that he started what is now a ~$700 billion company from his dorm room is a clear example of his creativity. Zuckerberg has recently shown off his creativity in a new invention that has been exclusively designed for his wife Priscilla Chan. In an Instagram post, […]
Facebook has a lot of problems, then there are a lot of problems for Facebook—and both are not going to end anytime sooner. Though Facebook has already set aside $5 billion from its revenue to cover a possible fine the company is expecting as a result of an FTC investigation over privacy violations, it seems […]
According to cyber forensics course experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), a security error in Facebook affected more users of Instagram than the social network had mentioned in the beginning. The social network updated a post on its blog (originally published last March 21) mentioning that, by mistake, it had been stored […]
Just a month ago, Facebook admitted it had mistakenly exposed hundreds of millions of passwords by storing them in plaintext where employees could access them. Facebook had announced back then that thousands of Instagram passwords were also leaked in the unencrypted storage blunder. Now, the company has quietly added a major update to that news: not […]
Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in a readable format and asked users for their email’s passwords for “verification.” On 21st March, 2018, the social media giant Facebook admitted that it stored passwords of 600 million users including “tens of thousands” of passwords belonging to Instagram users in plain-text which were accessible to over 20,000 […]
Facebook has expressed its plan of discontinuing the person-to-person payment procedure through the Facebook Messenger app in France and in the UK. All users of the payment feature will only be available before June 15, 2019. P2P payment scheme through Facebook Messenger is a system launched by the social media giant that enabled money transfers […]
What data do Facebook, Google, and mobile apps collect, do mobile carriers listen to your calls? Read this post and find answers to these and other privacy questions as well as get tips on how to protect your personal data. It has become known that information about 257,000 Facebook users have been freely available. Although […]
As part of its habit (which seems to die hard), Facebook has been found uploading contact details of around 1.5 million users without their knowledge while it asked users of his or her email passwords. The new revelation suggests that since 2016, Facebook has been “unintentionally” accumulating users’ contacts, and uploading them onto the platform when […]
A new NBC report has revealed another damning story about how Mark Zuckerberg had plans to consolidate Facebook’s power by leveraging user data as a bargaining chip. The 4,000 pages report, which was leaked by anonymous sources, sheds light on how top executives of Facebook, including CEO Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg, considered making deals with third-party developers to evaluate exactly how […]
When Facebook aped Snapchat’s Stories feature, the company knew it wasn’t making a mistake and now popularity on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp speaks for itself. Trying to make more out of the feature, Facebook could soon be forming a Facebook feed, combining News feed and Stories feed. As per tweets by popular reverse engineer Jane […]
According to a recent patent filed by the biggest social media network, Facebook users might become ‘micro-influencers’ without doing any intentional brand promotion. The new patent reveals that the associated technology will automatically gather data from a Facebook user’s photo and send it to the concerned brand. Please note that it’s just a patent at […]
A recent report by the researcher Jane Manchun Wong reveals that Facebook is thinking of integrating the Messenger app back into the Facebook mobile app. Earlier, the messaging option was available inside the Facebook app along with the Messenger app. Facebook is bringing the Chats back to the app for preparing integrated messaging Tip @Techmeme pic.twitter.com/LABK7qrk0e […]
Election season in India is difficult, especially for social media platforms. Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp have been associated with instances of deadly fake news resulting in real-world violence. Recently, these platforms have begun a crackdown on violence-inciting fake news. Facebook, with around 300 million users in India, went one step further to physically verify the identity […]
Cybercriminal host dozens of Facebook groups to serve as a marketplace for carrying out a number of illicit services and for exchanges. Instead of using hidden services cybercriminals prefer to operate in the massive social media platform. Talos research uncovered several groups on Facebook that involved in illegal activities, some groups found active for 8 […]
Unprotected Amazon Web Services has a new victim and it’s Facebook users. It’s just been a year since the Cambridge Analytics scandal made headlines the world in which Facebook failed to secure its users’ information. Now the cybersecurity firm UpGuard’s researchers have identified the presence of another unsecure Facebook database that has been publicly posted […]
It’s a new day and Facebook is featured in the news yet again (for the wrong reasons of course!). The Mark Zuckerberg-owned company has been found leaking data of millions of users to third-parties. According to a report by Research Firm UpGuard, two sets of user data has been discovered which was exposed to all. […]
Over 540 million Facebook users personal records that include comments, likes, reactions, account names, FB IDs exposed to the public Internet. All the data are collected and stored by Third-Party developers. Researchers from UpGuard found third-party Facebook app datasets, one from Mexico-based media company Cultura Colectiva and another one belongs to Facebook-integrated app “At the […]
It’s been a bad week for Facebook users. First, the social media company was caught asking some of its new users to share passwords for their registered email accounts and now… …the bad week gets worse with a new privacy breach. More than half a billion records of millions of Facebook users have been found […]