Unpatched security vulnerabilities affecting Facebook
A web security researcher from Portugal has discovered several vulnerabilities affecting Facebook that he considers to be serious, but hasn’t had much success convincing …
Apple Watch scams target Twitter and Facebook users
It didn’t take long for spammers to jump on the Apple Watch bandwagon – they set up a Twitter account named “Apple Giveaways”, and began spamming out …
Fake face aging app steals Facebook login credentials
Offers for an app that can purportedly show you how you will look in 20 years have been recently popping up in Facebook users’ newsfeed and on their walls, occasionally …
Beware of fake Facebook “Copyright Violations” warnings
The latest Facebook-themed phishing messages doing rounds are trying to trick users into believing they are “making copyright violations” on their Facebook page. …
Facebook unveils platform for exchanging security threat information
Facebook and sever other big Internet and tech companies have banded together to create ThreatExchange, a platform for exchanging security threat information. …
Fake Facebook Account Suspended emails lead to Trojans, ransomware
Fake Facebook account suspension emails are doing rounds of inboxes around the world, trying to convince the recipients that their account has been temporarily disabled due to …
Hottest Snapchats scam spreads on Facebook
A spam campaign revealing the 10 Hottest Snapchats is a new entry to the long list of Facebook scams flooding the social network. Bitdefender’s Labs have now blacklisted …
Thousands fall for Free Audi R8 Facebook scam
Over 200,000 Facebook users have so far fallen prey to a like-farming scam promising two free Audi R8 cars, and thousands are joining the victim list each hour, according to …
Facebook updates terms and policies, introduces interactive privacy guides
Facebook continues with its plan to make the social network’s privacy settings easier to understand, and has introduced Privacy Basics. Private Basics is a page where …
Facebook open sources Proxygen, C++ HTTP framework + server
After having open sourced the OS analysis tool osquery a week ago, Facebook has announced on Wednesday that Proxygen – a collection of C++ HTTP libraries and an …
Facebook embraces Tor users, sets up onion address
While in the past Facebook has occasionally blocked Tor connections because of security considerations, the company has decided it will help Tor users from now on, and …
The psychology of Facebook scam victims
A two-year study of over 850,000 Facebook scams by antivirus software provider Bitdefender has revealed that scammers have infected millions of users with the same repackaged …