ResearcherĀ Terence EdenĀ discovered that the permissions dialog when authorizing certain apps to Twitter could expose direct messages to the third-party. The flaw is triggered when apps that require a PIN to complete the authorization process instead...
New problems for Facebook, the social network giant announced that a bug related to Photo API could have allowed third-party apps to access usersā photos. Facebook announced that photos of 6.8 Million users might have been exposed by a bug in the Photo...
A British MP claims Facebook was ware about Russian political interference in 2014, long before the events becomeĀ public. The British MPĀ Damian Collins, head of a parliamentary inquiry into disinformation, revealed that one of theĀ emailsĀ seizedĀ from...
UK Parliament Seizes seized confidential Facebook documentsĀ from the developer of a now-defunct bikini photo searching app to investigate its data protection policies. A British lawmaker obliged a visiting tech executive to share the files ahead of an international...
Facebook appealsĀ 500,000-pound fineĀ for failing to protectĀ usersā personal information in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Facebook appeals the fineĀ for failing to protect the privacy of the users in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.Ā Political...
Facebook updates its bug bounty program, it is increasing the overall rewards for security flaws that could be exploited to take over accounts. Facebook announced an important novelty for its bug bounty, theĀ social media giant is going to pay out as much...
Security experts from Imperva reported a new Facebook flaw that could have exposed private info ofĀ users and their friends A new security vulnerability has been reported in Facebook, the flaw could have been exploited by attackers to obtain certain...
Twitter announced to have deleted more than 10,000 accounts managed by bots that were posting messages to influence U.S. Midterm election. Twitter announced to have deleted more than 10,000 accounts managed by bots that were posting messages to discourage...
Cybercriminals offered for sale private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook accounts claiming of being in possession of data from 120 million accounts. Crooks are offering for sale Criminals are selling the private messages of 81,000 hacked Facebook...
Facebook has been fined Ā£500,000 by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal that exposedĀ data of 87 million users. The announcement was made by the UK's data protection regulator, Information Commissioner...