Facebook removed 32 Facebook and Instagram accounts and pages that were involved in a coordinated operation aimed at influencing the midterm US elections Facebook has removed 32 Facebook and Instagram accounts and pages that were involved in a coordinated...
On Tuesday, Twitter announced it had removed more than 143,000 apps from the messaging service since April in a new crackdown initiative. Last week, Twitter announced it had removed more than 143,000 apps from the messaging service since April in a new crackdown...
Facebook has been fined £500,000 ($664,000) in the U.K. for its conduct in the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal. Facebook has been fined £500,000 in the U.K., the maximum fine allowed by the UK's Data Protection Act 1998, for failing to protect...
Yesterday the social network giant Facebook started notifying 800,000 users affected by a blocking bug. The company has already fixed it. When a Facebook user blocks someone, the blocked user will be not able to interact with him, this means that he will...
On Friday, Facebook provided a 748-page long report to Congress that confirms the social network shared data with at least 61 tech firms after 2015. This is the worst period in the history of the social network, now Facebook admitted to having shared...
Experts discovered a third-party quiz app, called NameTests, that was found exposing data of up to 120 million Facebook users. A bug on the Nametests.com exposed data of over 120 million users who took personality quizzes on Facebook, the good news...
Twitter provided some details on new security processes aimed at preventing malicious automation and spam. The tech giant also shared data on the success obtained with the introduction of the new security measures. Social media platform...
Facebook admitted that a bug affecting its platform caused the change of the settings of some 14 million users, potentially exposing their private posts to the public. This is the worst period in the history of the social network giant that was involved...
Facebook APIs granted access to the data belonging to FB users to more than 60 device makers, including Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry, and Samsung so that they could implement Facebook messaging functions. After the Cambridge Analytica...
A security researcher found evidence that Twitter is testing a new feature, dubbed 'Secret Conversation,' to enable end-to-end encryption for its Direct Messages, Twitter plans to adopt end-to-end encryption for its Direct Messages, the company is currently...