Some third-party apps quietly scraped personal information from people's accounts from Twitter and Facebook, the social media companies claim. Facebook and Twitter revealed that some third-party apps quietly scraped personal information from people's...
Twitter announced that its users can protect their accounts with 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) even if they don't have a phone number. Twitter is going to allow its users to protect their accounts with 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) even if they don't...
Two former Twitter employees have been charged with spying on thousands of Twitter user accounts on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government. Two former Twitter employees have been charged with spying on thousands of Twitter user accounts on behalf...
Facebook disclosed a new security incident, the social network giant admitted that app developers may have accessed its group users' data. Facebook disclosed another security incident, the company revealed that roughly 100 app developers may have...
Facebook has agreed to pay a fine of $643,000 (500,000 pounds) in the privacy case stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal. In July 2018, Facebook has been fined £500,000 ($664,000) in the U.K. for its conduct in the Cambridge Analytica privacy...
Twitter admitted having "inadvertently" used phone numbers and email addresses, collected for security purposes, for advertising. Twitter apologized to have used phone numbers and email addresses, privided by the users for security purposes, for advertising....
Facebook announced it has suspended tens of thousands of apps as a result of a review of privacy practices launched following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. In April 2018, Facebook revealed that 87 million users have been affected by the Cambridge...
New problems to Facebook, phone numbers associated with more than 400 million accounts of the social network giant were exposed online. A new privacy incident involved Facebook, according to TechCruch, phone numbers associated with 419 million accounts...
Twitter opted to temporarily disable the feature that allows users to post tweets via SMS, in response to the hack of the CEO's account. Twitter announced to temporarily disable the feature that allows users to post tweets via SMS, in response to the hack...
A security vulnerability in the Facebook design (FB5) could have allowed attackers to remove any photo from profiles of the users. The security expert Philippe Harewood is one of the security researchers that received early access by Facebook...