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Recently facebook has deleted ten thousand of applications of hundred developers. Because of Cambridge Analytica scandals. Over the last year when consultancy, Shadow Political was holding details of around 50 million usrs through an facebook app. On which developers broke social netowrk giant rule on the data collection. After the 5 billion of settlement with […]
$5 billion, that is a huge sum of money for anyone who reads this hackercombat.com article. An amount of money that is so huge, you can buy a dozen car every day for many decades to come, but will never break your bank if you are Facebook. Yes, $5 billion in fine is what Facebook […]
Facebook had for years stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plain text, according to a recent report. Brian Krebs has, through his website KrebsOnSecurity, made this rather startling revelation. Krebs says, in a report dated 21 March 2019, “Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and […]
If think Facebook is collecting data after you have gone through all that stories, and want to quit or already did it, then let you be confirmed that Facebook is still tracking you. As reported in Threatpost, that a report was presented by Privacy International on Saturday here at 35C3 that reads ‘Facebook collects data […]
Seven months back TechCrunch reported how Facebook secretly retracted messages sent by Mark Zuckerberg and other executives from their recipients’ inboxes. That’s a feature that normal Facebook users don’t have. Later Facebook reveals its plan to make an “unsend” feature available to all users in the coming month, and has already been considering how to […]
We saw one of the worst security breaches when the accounts of approximately 50 million Facebook users were compromised. According to the Independent, those details have begun appearing on the darknet websites. Research on several dark web marketplaces uncovered that criminals can buy your details on the dark web for less than a takeaway coffee. […]
It’s a comprehensive approach that Facebook adopts when it comes to securing data. Rather than just focus on security as something that’s mere tech, Facebook prefers to integrate physical security as well into the whole fabric. Data security thus attains new dimensions at Facebook, with a real integrated approach being given due importance. Laymen perhaps […]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Congress this week to explain how his company collects and handles users’ personal information. The past few weeks have been difficult for Facebook over concerns that the data of millions of users has been breached. Facebook stores details of almost every action you have taken and interaction you […]
If you haven’t enabled two-factor authentication on Facebook, you should. If Facebook thinks someone has attempted to access your account, it will notify you. Now, those warnings may come if Facebook thinks the attacker is backed by a government. In a blog post from Facebook’s Chief Security Officer, the company has said that it’s expanding […]
Facebook has officially launched the new Security Checkup feature that was being tested on a narrow user-base for a few months. Facebook has rolled out its new security tool today that is expected to show up at the top of news feeds on walls of all mobile and desktop-based users in the coming weeks. [must […]