A Russian court fined Twitter and Facebook 4 million rubles each for refusing to store the personal data of Russian citizens on local servers. At the end of January, Russia’s telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor instituted administrative proceedings...
The social network giant Facebook is still the target of hackers, its Facebook and Instagram accounts have been hijacked by the popular hacking group OurMine Yesterdat the popular hacking group OurMine hacked the Twitter and Instagram accounts for Facebook...
Twitter discloses a security incident involving third-parties that exploited its official API to match phone numbers with Twitter usernames. On December 24, 2019 the company discovered that its API were exploited by a large network of fake accounts...
Facebook addressed last week a security flaw that exposed page admin accounts, the bug was exploited against several high-profile pages. Last week Facebook has addressed a security issue that exposed page admin accounts, the bug was exploited in attacks...
Monika Bickert, Facebook for global policy management, announced that Facebook will ban deepfake videos and manipulated content. Facebook has announced it will ban deepfake videos, which are media that take a person in an existing image or video and replace...
Early this week, Brazil fined Facebook $1.65 million for improperly sharing users' data in a case linked to the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal. Brazil fined Facebook $1.65 million for improperly sharing users' data in a case linked to the Cambridge...
Another celebrity was the victim of the hackers, Mariah Carey 's Twitter account appears to have been hacked on New Year's Eve. The Twitter account of Mariah Carey was hacked on New Year's Eve, attackers posted a series of offensive, racist and lewd...
In September Zynga, the American social game developer running social video game services suffered a data breach that 173 Million accounts. Zynga Inc is an American social game developer running social video game services founded in April 2007, it primarily...
A flaw in the Twitter app for Android could have been exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive information or take over an account. Twitter has recently addressed a security vulnerability that affected the Android version of the app, it could have...
Security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered more than 267 million Facebook user IDs, phone numbers and names in an unsecured database. Security expert Bob Diachenko, along with Comparitech, has discovered more than 267 million Facebook user IDs,...