Facebook is set to introduce end-to-end encryption for its Messenger app, allowing more than its 900 Million users to send and receive messages that can not be read or intercepted by law enforcement or even the social network itself.
However, it’s not the kind of end-to-end encrypted chat feature provided by Apple or WhatsApp in which all your conversation are entirely encrypted by default.
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There’s nowhere to hide across the web, especially from the marketing and advertising companies.
If you are paranoid about your privacy, you may get upset to know that Facebook will now track and deliver targeted Ads on other apps and websites for everyone, even if you do not have Facebook accounts.
Until now, Facebook was showing targeted ads only to its users, but now the social networking
Facebook paid researcher Arne Swinnen a $5,000 bounty for a pair of authentication vulnerabilities in Instagram that enabled brute-force attacks against usernames and passwords.
Facebook is in trouble once again regarding its users’ privacy.
Facebook is facing a class-action lawsuit in Northern California over allegations that the company systematically scans its users’ private messages on the social network without their consent and makes the profit by sharing the data with advertisers and marketers.
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According to the lawsuit filing, Facebook might
Facebook today made its capture the flag platform freely available on GitHub, which includes a ready-made backend and a set of pre-defined challenges.
Hacking into computer, networks and websites could easily land you in jail. But what if you could freely test and practice your hacking skills in a legally safe environment?
Facebook just open-sourced its Capture The Flag (CTF) platform to encourage students as well as developers to learn about cyber security and secure coding practices.
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Capture the Flag hacking competitions
“Talent has no Age Limit”
That’s what I said for a 10-year-old Finnish boy on our official Facebook page while sharing his recent achievement with our readers i.e. Winning $10,000 bug bounty from Instagram.
Last Tuesday when we at The Hacker News first acknowledged this talented boy and the flaw he discovered in image-sharing social network Instagram, I did not have an idea that the Facebook
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For the second time in past five months, a Brazil court ordered local telecommunications companies to block the popular messaging app WhatsApp for 72 hours, afterFacebook-owned WhatsApp company refused to hand over information requested in a drug trafficking investigation. The WhatsApp’s shutdown is affecting more than 100 million users throughout the country. Moreover, if Brazilian
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Facebook has hit another Milestone: More than 1 MILLION people, or you can say privacy conscious, are accessing Facebook over TOR.
Facebook proudly announced today that, this month, for the first time, the people connected to the anonymous version of Facebook that’s accessible only through the TOR anonymity network exceeded 1 Million – an increase of almost 100% in the past ten
You can get insight into the life of a stranger through their Instagram photos, Snapchats, or profile pages, but when does it become too much? Our names alone can connect the dots for a perpetrator, making it easy to know our whereabouts. Information about where we work, where we went to University, or where our favorite coffee shop is…it’s all online. Everything you “share” can have serious backlash: identity theft.
Celebrities are commonly impersonated online, on fake Instagram and Facebook accounts, but they are not the only ones who need to keep track of their digital reputations. A stranger can copy your photos and concoct their own version of your life. It could be very possible that someone has already impersonated you.
The social network created by Mark Zuckerberg is fighting these fake accounts. A tool has been created that automatically notifies users who may be victims of phishing. This feature is already available in 75% of the world’s countries.
When Facebook detects that another person may be posing as you, they automatically notify you about the potentially “fake” profile. After that, the user can confirm or deny whether the profile is a fake. If it’s confirmed, Facebook gets to work; more specifically, the team manually carries out this part of the notification system.
Although they say impersonation is not a widespread problem, Zuckberberg has added this to the list of harassment he doesn’t want associated with his company. To fight it, they will continue their strict and controversial naming policy (requiring users to identify themselves with their real names), but will also actively pursue phishers.
Facebook has also launched two other security features that are next in line. One is a new system that reports the existence of intimate photos shared without the user’s consent and the other is a tool that lets them check the security status of images uploaded to their accounts. They have also introduced a feature that gives users the ability to manage the privacy settings of their photos (Who can see them? Do you really want them to be public?).
Though security is always advancing, the bad guys of the Internet are closely following behind. Next time you decide to upload personal photos, “check-in” to a geographical location, or update your work history on LinkedIn, remember that someone, somewhere might use your identity for their own personal gain.
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