Facebook Data Security

Antitrust authorities overseeing firms such as Facebook owner Meta Platforms are entitled to also assess privacy breaches, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on Tuesday, potentially handing them more leeway in Big Tech probes.

A massive data breach that has implications for national security was unearthed by Cyberabad Police here, who arrested seven people of a gang allegedly involved in the theft and sale of sensitive data of the government and important organisations, including details of 2.55 lakh defence personnel as well as the personal and confidential data of abou...

Disneyland Resort's Facebook and Instagram accounts were hacked earlier on Thursday. The self-claimed “super hacker” shared a series of inappropriate posts “to bring revenge upon Disneyland." However, Walt Disney stated that the posts have now been taken down and the accounts have been secured.

Facebook was asked by Italy's data protection authority to provide clarifications over the newly launched Ray-Ban Stories to assess whether the product is compliant with privacy laws.

Zoom has settled a user privacy lawsuit in the US for $85 million (roughly Rs. XX) over ‘Zoombombing’ incidents that plagued the platform. The suit charged that Zoom's sharing of users' personal data with Facebook, Google and LinkedIn was a breach of privacy for millions. While Zoom denied wrongdoing, it did agree to improve its security practi...

Data breaches can prove expensive to users since hackers are bound to use the information for social engineering (advanced phishing), scamming, ransomware, spamming and marketing, causing users immense amount of distress and financial losses too in many cases. Here's how companies can protect their data from hackers and make it secured against data...

India's cyber security agency CERT-In has advised Facebook users to strengthen their account privacy settings after a recent global 'data scraping' incident in the social media platform affected about 61 lakh Indians.

WhatsApp's new privacy policy has kicked up a storm. There have been major concerns about the instant messaging app's data collection which is huge as compared to other apps. WhatsApp will now share more data with parent company Facebook which has raised security concerns.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's "Use Signal" tweet led to a massive number of signups for the alternative app to WhatsApp. This came after the Mark Zuckerberg-owned instant messaging app changed its privacy policy. WhatsApp will now share more data with parent company Facebook which has raised security concerns.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted after WhatsApp's policy changes to say, 'Use Signal.' The privacy focused messaging platform is popular with security professionals and researchers, but could this be what it takes to go mainstream?

The EU's top court on Tuesday put limits on how European spy and security agencies could harvest troves of personal data, but said this could be done under a serious threat to national security.

A security researcher was awarded with a $6,000 (roughly Rs. 4.5 lakhs) bug bounty pay after discovering that Instagram retained data on its server even after he had deleted them, as per reports.

US tech giants face a reckoning over how Hong Kong's security law will reshape their businesses, with their suspension of processing government requests for user data a stop-gap measure as they weigh options, people close to the industry say.

Microsoft and Zoom on Tuesday joined other major internet firms that have stopped considering requests by Hong Kong's government for information on users in the wake of China's imposition of a sweeping new security law.

TikTok will exit the Hong Kong market within days, a spokesman told Reuters late on Monday, as other technology companies including Facebook Inc have suspended processing government requests for user data in the region.

Antitrust authorities overseeing firms such as Facebook owner Meta Platforms are entitled to also assess privacy breaches, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on Tuesday, potentially handing them more leeway in Big Tech probes.

A massive data breach that has implications for national security was unearthed by Cyberabad Police here, who arrested seven people of a gang allegedly involved in the theft and sale of sensitive data of the government and important organisations, including details of 2.55 lakh defence personnel as well as the personal and confidential data of abou...

Disneyland Resort's Facebook and Instagram accounts were hacked earlier on Thursday. The self-claimed “super hacker” shared a series of inappropriate posts “to bring revenge upon Disneyland." However, Walt Disney stated that the posts have now been taken down and the accounts have been secured.

Facebook was asked by Italy's data protection authority to provide clarifications over the newly launched Ray-Ban Stories to assess whether the product is compliant with privacy laws.

Zoom has settled a user privacy lawsuit in the US for $85 million (roughly Rs. XX) over ‘Zoombombing’ incidents that plagued the platform. The suit charged that Zoom's sharing of users' personal data with Facebook, Google and LinkedIn was a breach of privacy for millions. While Zoom denied wrongdoing, it did agree to improve its security practi...

Data breaches can prove expensive to users since hackers are bound to use the information for social engineering (advanced phishing), scamming, ransomware, spamming and marketing, causing users immense amount of distress and financial losses too in many cases. Here's how companies can protect their data from hackers and make it secured against data...

India's cyber security agency CERT-In has advised Facebook users to strengthen their account privacy settings after a recent global 'data scraping' incident in the social media platform affected about 61 lakh Indians.

WhatsApp's new privacy policy has kicked up a storm. There have been major concerns about the instant messaging app's data collection which is huge as compared to other apps. WhatsApp will now share more data with parent company Facebook which has raised security concerns.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's "Use Signal" tweet led to a massive number of signups for the alternative app to WhatsApp. This came after the Mark Zuckerberg-owned instant messaging app changed its privacy policy. WhatsApp will now share more data with parent company Facebook which has raised security concerns.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted after WhatsApp's policy changes to say, 'Use Signal.' The privacy focused messaging platform is popular with security professionals and researchers, but could this be what it takes to go mainstream?

The EU's top court on Tuesday put limits on how European spy and security agencies could harvest troves of personal data, but said this could be done under a serious threat to national security.

A security researcher was awarded with a $6,000 (roughly Rs. 4.5 lakhs) bug bounty pay after discovering that Instagram retained data on its server even after he had deleted them, as per reports.

US tech giants face a reckoning over how Hong Kong's security law will reshape their businesses, with their suspension of processing government requests for user data a stop-gap measure as they weigh options, people close to the industry say.

Microsoft and Zoom on Tuesday joined other major internet firms that have stopped considering requests by Hong Kong's government for information on users in the wake of China's imposition of a sweeping new security law.

TikTok will exit the Hong Kong market within days, a spokesman told Reuters late on Monday, as other technology companies including Facebook Inc have suspended processing government requests for user data in the region.