Facebook has removed a number of accounts and pages that advertised the personal information of dozens of people, including Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers and credit card numbers. “Posts containing information like Social Security numbers or credit card information are not allowed on Facebook,...
It is easy to overlook the incredible power of Facebook, Sunil Madhu, CEO of Socure, told Karen Webster. But with two billion users – a billion or so of whom check in with the social network once a day – the reality, he said, is that what...
Despite Facebook’s recent data scandal that affected 50 million users, a new poll shows that most Americans haven’t done much to protect their privacy online. The poll, conducted by Reuters and Ipsos, found that 86 percent of people have not changed their login credentials on Facebook,...
About 20 years before Julius Caesar overthrew the Roman Republic and became the first Emperor of the Roman Empire, he was elected to the position Pontifex Maximus. This made him the head of Roman state religion, and it came with some perks. The main one...
June 29, 2018
A hacker has found that a Facebook quiz has exposed the information of more than 120 million monthly users— even after they deleted the app. Inti De Ceukelaire, a hacker at Securinti, wrote in a Medium post that Nametests.com, the website behind the quizzes, recently fixed a flaw that publicly exposed the information. De Ceukelaire started […]
April 25, 2018
Facebook has removed a number of accounts and pages that advertised the personal information of dozens of people, including Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers and credit card numbers. “Posts...
March 30, 2018
Despite Facebook’s recent data scandal that affected 50 million users, a new poll shows that most Americans haven’t done much to protect their privacy online. The poll, conducted by Reuters and...
March 22, 2018
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has promised to take a tougher stance on developers’ access to user data after a recent scandal showed that a U.K. based company used that...
