Facebook Admits Sharing Users' Data With 61 Tech Companies

Facebook has admitted that the company gave dozens of tech companies and app developers special access to its users' data after publicly saying it had restricted outside companies to access such data back in 2015. It's an unusual clear view of how the largest social networking site manages your...

AT&T, Sprint, Verizon to Stop Sharing Customer Location Data With Third Parties

In the wake of a scandal involving third-party companies leaking or selling precise, real-time location data on virtually all Americans who own a mobile phone, the four major wireless carriers have responded to requests from a U.S. senator for more details about how the carriers are managing acce...

Podcast: The Growing Social Media Threat Landscape

Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal in March was just the tip of the social-media iceberg, as malware, hacks and basic privacy concerns continue to increase on social-media platforms. Threatpost’s Lindsey O’Donnell talks with Zack Allen, ZeroFOX’s manager of threat operations, about the threat...

Facebook bug changed 14 million users' default privacy settings to public

Facebook admits as many as 14 millions of its users who thought they're sharing content privately with only friends may have inadvertently shared their posts with everyone because of a software bug. Facebook said in front of Congress in March over the Cambridge Analytica scandal that "every piece...

Facebook Accused of Giving Over 60 Device-Makers Deep Access to User Data

After being embroiled into controversies over its data sharing practices, it turns out that Facebook had granted inappropriate access to its users' data to more than 60 device makers, including Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry, and Samsung. According to a lengthy report published by The New...

What Will GDPR’s Impact Be On U.S. Consumer Privacy?

Will General Data Protection Regulation rules that go in effect on Friday impact the privacy of U.S. citizens? It depends who you ask, but the odds-on-favorite answer is “not by much.” The Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal in March led to a firehose of rebuke against social media platforms,...

Facebook Introduces “Clear History” Option Amid Data Scandal

Facebook unveiled new updates to its social-media platform this week aimed at securing private data – including a new privacy control called “Clear History.” CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined the new data privacy measure in a post. Clear History essentially brings the capabilities that users are...

Facebook Offering $40,000 Bounty If You Find Evidence Of Data Leaks

Facebook pays millions of dollars every year to researchers and bug hunters to stamp out security holes in its products and infrastructure, but following Cambridge Analytica scandal, the company today launched a bounty program to reward users for reporting "data abuse" on its platform. The move...

Privacy Advocates Blast Facebook After Data Scraping Scandal

Privacy advocates are up in arms after CEO Mark Zuckerberg said this week a Facebook reverse search tool may have compromised the data of the social network’s two billion users. The feature in question was designed to enable users to enter a Facebook user’s phone numbers or email addresses into t...

Facebook Cracks Down On Data Misuse With Expanded Bug Bounty Program

Facebook said in the coming weeks it will expand its bug bounty program in an attempt to crackdown on data misuse by third-party app developers. The company’s bug bounty program, first started in 2011, prompts researchers to find vulnerabilities on the social media platform – but now will be...

Facebook Collected Your Android Call History and SMS Data For Years

Facebook knows a lot about you, your likes and dislikes—it's no surprise. But do you know, if you have installed Facebook Messenger app on your Android device, there are chances that the company had been collecting your contacts, SMS, and call history data at least until late last year. A tweet...

On Dark Web Your Facebook ID is worth $5.20 & Gmail ID just $1

By Waqas Recently we reported about a massive data breach scandal that This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: On Dark Web Your Facebook ID is worth $5.20 & Gmail ID just $1...

Facebook and Cambridge Analytica – What's Happened So Far

Top Story— Facebook has just lost over $60 billion in market value over the past two days—that's more than Tesla's entire market capitalisation and almost three times that of Snapchat. Facebook shares plunge over revelations that personal data of 50 million users was obtained and misused by Briti...

Fourth Fappening Hacker Admits to Stealing Celebrity Pics From iCloud Accounts

Almost three years after the massive leakage of high-profile celebrities' photos—well known as "The Fappening" or "Celebgate" scandal—a fourth hacker has been charged with hacking into over 250 Apple iCloud accounts belonged to Hollywood celebrities. A federal court has accused George Garofano, 2...

Vermont Grid 'Hack' Latest Tumble Down Attribution Rabbit Hole

A Vermont utility was for a brief moment last week at the center of a geopolitical scandal in which the Russian government was implicated in an attack against a U.S. electric grid. As it turns out, a laptop at Burlington Electric Department was infected with the Neutrino Exploit Kit. There was no...

Hack Apple & Get Paid up to $200,000 Bug Bounty Reward

So finally, Apple will pay you for your efforts of finding bugs in its products. While major technology companies, including Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have launched bug bounty programs over last few years to reward researchers and hackers who report vulnerabilities in their products, Apple...

Developer 32: Protecting against yourself

Security Developer 32: Protecting against yourself Share June 18th, 2015 Remember the SuperFish scandal? A third party application installed a Certificate Authority on PCs, and then hijacked all secure connections by serving browsers certificates from this local certificate authority. The SuperFi...

The Fappening 4 — Private Pictures of Celebrities Leaked Online

The leaks of celebrity photos continue, revealing their first male victim in the fourth wave. As a result of the Fappening 4, Nick Hogan, the son of Hulk Hogan, became the first celebrity male to fall victim to the leaked private photos. The first three 'celebs photos leaks' usually include image...

Reported Apple iCloud Hack Leaked Hundreds of Celebrity Photos

Now this gonna be the height of Privacy Breach! Images of several high-profile persona including actors, models, singers and presenters have been made available online in a blatant hacking leak linked to the Apple iCloud service. The recent privacy breach appears to be one of the biggest celebrit...

French intelligence agency gets complete access to Orange Telecom Data

Another leak from Edward Snowden files, but this time not about the NSA, rather the documents revealed that France's central intelligence agency, the DGSE has complete and unconditional access to all of telecom giant Orange’s data, not just metadata. Yes! It is the same Orange company who...