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Facebook has been under users’ scrutiny for various reasons; one of them is discrimination caused by the ads on the platform. To curb this, the social networking site is revamping its ad-targeting system for housing, employment and credit ads. The new ad-targeting system will no longer discriminate against users on the basis of race, ethnicity, […]
Intel announced at the Open Compute Project Global Summit 2019 that it is collaborating with Facebook to design Cooper Lake 14nm Xeon processor family. Jason Waxman, Intel’s VP of Data Center Group and GM of the Cloud Platforms Group, announced the partnership in a keynote where he also announced new open hardware advancements. Jason said that […]
Facebook has gained a lot of negative spotlights for all the data breach scandals it has got its head into. Adding more to the scrutiny, the social networking site is now under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors, as per a report by The New York Times. It is suggested that a New York jury has […]
Facebook says it’s aware of the situation and trying to fix the issue. Another day, another service outage at social media giant Facebook and its subsidiary company Instagram. Yes, Facebook and Instagram have been hit by a worldwide service outage forcing both platforms to go offline. According to the Facebook’s outage map displayed on DownDetecter, the scale of […]
Facebook-owned WhatsApp has been working hard to maintain the security and privacy of users of late. Taking this forward, the messaging app is now banning users who are more inclined towards its clones than the official version. As announced via its FAQ section, WhatsApp is displaying a warning message to users who are violating WhatsApp’s […]
Mark Zuckerberg-owned Facebook has been surrounded by a host of privacy issues. In addition to the existing ones, a new Facebook bug has surfaced which allowed anyone to view your messages. According to a blog post by the Imperva, a cybersecurity firm, Facebook Messenger was prone to a vulnerability (now patched) that allowed Cross-Site Frame […]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has promised to introduce end-to-end encryption and auto-expire features on Messenger and other Facebook apps, to fulfill his commitment to privacy. In a 3,200 words blog post published by Zuckerberg, he announced that the company wants to become a “privacy-focused communications platform” for which new changes will be made to all Facebook-owned apps. At present, Facebook provides […]
Previously, a survey by Privacy International discovered the exchange of users’ data between various Android apps and Facebook, following which many apps stopped the practices. However, a recent survey suggests that the data collection continues to take place for some other apps. It is suggested that apps such as Yelp, Duolingo, job-hunting app Indeed, a Bible app, as well as two Muslim […]
A recent report by Tech Crunch states that phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts could be used to look up profiles. Last year, the company had pestered users into registering their phone numbers for two-factor authentication. The problem here is that users cannot opt out of this feature and anyone with or without an account […]
Back at the F8 Developer conference in 2018, Facebook announced a number of new changes to its Messenger service. The revamp was aimed to de-clutter the Messenger app and make it more user-friendly. Out of the many new changes, the Dark Mode is finally getting rolled out inside the Facebook Messenger app. Before you start scouting […]
A few weeks ago, TechCrunch revealed that Facebook is mining data from teens using a research app that allowed the company to monitor the web browsing patterns of the users. The dubious ‘research’ app was based on the infamous Onavo VPN app owned by Facebook, which was pulled down from the iOS App Store last year for logging users’ […]
Earlier, Facebook either had an option to track location all the time or not track it at all. Now, as good news (at least for me), the social media site has added improvements to its location settings, giving users more control over their location data. Facebook is adding a new background location control which will […]
At the beginning of the year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised that he would hold public talks as a part of 2019 resolution which aims at solving issues in the tech world. Taking this forward, Zuckerberg had a 100-minute conversation with Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain where he tried to explain how Facebook is all about protecting the privacy of its users. […]
A fatal cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability on Facebook was discovered by a security researcher, and interestingly it allowed hackers to take over Facebook accounts with a simple one-click on a link. The cybersecurity expert “Samm0uda” discovered a vulnerability after noticing an exposed endpoint (facebook.com/comet/dialog_DONOTUSE/), which could be exploited to bypass the CSRF protections and […]
A malware strain dubbed as Rietspoof has been under the radar of researchers at Avast since last August. Reportedly, researchers suspect that the malware is on the rise and it is being distributed via Skype, Facebook Messenger, and other messaging apps. Researchers maintain that the malware actually is a dropper designed to allow dangerous ransomware to […]
Vulnerability would have allowed an attacker to take control of an account by simply clicking a link Facebook has just granted a $25k USD reward for the report of critical cross-site request forgery vulnerability. According to network security specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, the vulnerability could have been exploited to hijack social […]
After 18 months of an investigation against Facebook, probing the social media platform’s privacy practice, the UK government has published a detailed report. The Digital, Culture, Media and Sports Committee of the UK Parliament has accused Facebook of violating data privacy laws. The report also contained information acquired from Facebook’s internal emails. The officials have asked social media platforms to remove […]
Another year, another day, and you are again reading news about Facebook about to get fined by the FTC. And this time, the money could be greater than what the tech giant had already paid — it could be in a multi-billion dollar magnitude. It goes without saying that the underlying reason behind the record […]
Facebook is a trove of an unimaginable amount of data, and by now, we are aware that the company can track us individually by using it. In a startling revelation by CNBC, it has been found that Facebook also keeps track of the location of all those users who threaten its employees and the company. […]
Following a ruckus on Twitter, Instagram acknowledged that a bug is causing a massive drop in the number of followers in many Instagram accounts, particularly the accounts of prominent figures. Earlier, it was speculated that this is an outcome of the company culling inactive and fake accounts. Now, it looks more like a glitch that Instagram […]
Facebook-owned Instagram has all (well, mostly) the features enough to entice users. Continuing to add more, the photo-sharing app is expected to take its Direct messaging to the web soon. According to a report by TechCrunch, a web version of Instagram Direct Messages is being tested by the company, which will allow users to take up […]