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The clock ticking its way to midnight. On New Year’s Eve, a lot of people hope only the best things will happen in 2019. There were though plenty of things to complain about last year. One of the biggest issues seemed to be the massive amount of security breaches involving digital companies and social media […]
Fake News was crowned as the word of the year in 2017. In an era where we need quality journalism, social media sites are bent on destroying it. In a recent interview with Linux Journal’s first publisher, Robert Young, Linus Torvalds — Creator of Linux — revealed the true nature of social media. Linus pulled […]
If you follow Mark Zuckerberg, you know he takes up challenges every year, and this year’s involved a fix in technology. Continuing this, Zuckerberg held a public discussion wherein, apart from talking about journalism and technology, he hinted at Facebook’s standalone news service. In a conversation with the CEO of Europe’s publisher Axel Springer, Mark […]
It hasn’t even been a month since Facebook admitted that it stored millions of user passwords in plaintext on its servers. Now, Facebook wants some users to hand over their email account passwords if they want to use the social media platform. This sketchy behavior by Facebook was first spotted by e-Sushi, an anonymous security researcher, and reported by the Daily Beast. Apparently, new users detected […]
I remember the days when Facebook was the hot thing and scrolling through the News Feed every day was as mandatory as eating food. Breaking the flashback bubble and coming back to the present, Facebook is a mess now. With data breaches and a lot more happening, the Mark Zuckerberg-owned platform (which we all adored even […]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg opened up in an op-ed he wrote for the Washington Post and expressed his views regarding the content available on the internet and the dire need to regulate it. Mark Zuckerberg admitted that Facebook has too much power over speech and it is time that government bodies must intervene to make […]
After several ‘Unite the Right rallies,’ violence in Charlottesville and the Christchurch terrorist attack in New Zealand, Facebook finally took action. The social media platform banned ‘White Nationalist’ and ‘White Separatist’ content on its platform. Prior to this, only the ‘White Supremacy’ or content related to it was banned. In an official Facebook Newsroom post […]
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has filed charges against Facebook for allowing discrimination against certain demographics in housing ads. HUD says that Facebook violated the Fair Housing Act by offering options to advertisers that let them exclude groups listed as protected classes in the Fair Housing Act. Just a week ago, Facebook adjusted […]
A former Facebook executive, Alex Stamos, at the Washington Post’s technology and policy conference, has suggested that Mark Zuckerberg can foresee the advantage of a decision perceived as insane. It is suggested that while at present his decisions could prove insane and unrequired for, they prove to be beneficial in the future. “Mark Zuckerberg is sitting on more data about what people want […]
The biggest Social Media platform, Facebook announced that it no longer separates the terms ‘White Nationalism’ and ‘White Supremacy.’ In an official statement, Facebook revealed that they have been in regular discussion with experts on race relations and members of civil society regarding the issue of race-related hate speech. In its first move, Facebook avoided the […]
When I first got my hands on the new Galaxy S10+, I was surprised to find that the unlocked model came with pre-installed Facebook and there was no easy way to uninstall the app. The same goes for some Microsoft-owned apps like Office and LinkedIn. This issue would have been a smaller worry if it didn’t […]
In an incident, which is both hilarious and surprising, a man has accepted that he stole millions from two of the major tech companies — Google and Facebook — by faking bills of purchases the company never made. 50-year-old Evaldas Rimasauskas, from Lithuania, came up with a deemed perfect plan to extract and ask for money […]
To help the whitehat hackers easily test the security of its homegrown mobile apps, Facebook has launched a new feature called Whitehat Settings. This setting is applicable for Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger apps for Android; it’s currently unavailable for iOS platform. The company expects that whitehat hackers will use this feature on their accounts to hunt bug bounties. […]
Facebook was under harsh critique due to the recent Christchurch Terror attack in New-Zealand. The perpetrator that carried out the attack live-streamed his heinous act on the social media platform. The unfortunate event drew attention towards the lack of responsibilities of social media sites like Facebook and outraged the global community. A recent report from The Counter […]
Change your Facebook password and get use to the multi-factor authentication; these are the main tips that the specialists from the best ethical hacking Institute can give social networking users after, according to reports from the International Institute of Cyber Security, hundreds of millions of Facebook passwords were stored in plain text and within reach […]
Adding on to the list of goof-ups by Facebook, a new report has surfaced which states that hundreds of millions of users’ passwords were stored in plain text for years. What’s even worse is that Facebook employees had unfettered access to this data. This security blunder dates back to 2012 and after cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs published […]
The company says it discovered the issue in January and there is no need to change passwords. The social media giant Facebook has revealed that its internal data storage systems saved user passwords in plain text that could be accessed by employees. The social media said an ongoing investigation so far has revealed no sign that employees abused or accessed […]
Facebook Stored their hundreds of millions of users password in plain text instead of masking it as a human-readable format. These millions of unencrypted plain text passwords are accessible by thousands of internal Facebook employees. But the further investigation conducted by Facebook reveals there is no indication that any of the Facebook employees are abused […]
This week a Lithuanian citizen pleaded guilty of having collaborated to implement a fraud scheme against Google and Facebook for over $100M USD, reported the International Institute of Cyber Security and experts of ethical hacking training in India. Evaldas Rimasauskas, 50 years old, pleaded guilty of the charge of electronic fraud before a district judge […]
By sheer coincidence, Google and Facebook one after another had their system downtimes and the world felt it heavily. We came into the realization that we depend on these two companies on how: we communicate; how we speak with each other; how to entertain ourselves and how to share our everyday lives with our acquaintances. […]
Apparently it is impossible for Facebook to get away from the problems. According to an ethical hacking training expert from the International Institute of Cyber Security, the social network faces an investigation by federal agents due to its policy for the management and exchange of data with third parties. According to the reports, a grand […]