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Facebook Confirms Bug Messed with 14 Million Users' Sharing Settings

Facebook has admitted that, between May 18 and 27, posts by some 14 million users were automatically set to be shared with the public.

Fraud Data Shows 680% Spike in Fraudulent Mobile App Transactions

The number of fraudulent transactions originating from a mobile app during the first quarter has increased by 200 per cent since 2015, according to RSA Security. Analysis from the team also indicated that abuse of social media platforms is a growing problem, with social media replacing the dark web[...]

A New Cryptocurrency Mining Virus is Spreading Through Facebook

Cybersecurity researchers from Trend Micro are warning users of a malicious Chrome extension which is spreading through Facebook Messenger and targeting users of cryptocurrency trading platforms to steal their accounts’ credentials.

Facebook Admits Public Data of its 2.2 Billion Users Has Been Compromised

Facebook admitted that all of its 2.2 billion users should assume malicious third-party scrapers have compromised their public profile information.

FTC Investigating Facebook in the Wake of Cambridge Analytica Crisis

U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) confirmed that it has launched an open, non-public investigation into Facebook's privacy practices following the Cambridge Analytica crisis.

Google Introduces new DDoS Protection Service

Google introduced a new DDoS protection service called Cloud Armor. Along with providing DDoS protection, Cloud Armor is also an application defense service that is based on the same technologies and global infrastructure that the company uses to protect its other products, such as Gmail, YouTube[...]

New Record Breaking 1.7 Tbps DDoS Attack, Non-HTTPS Sites To Be Marked Not Secure And More In This Weeks News

The record has been broken - again Only four days after the 1.35 Tbps Github DDoS attack that was successfully mitigated by Akamai a new record breaking attack has been recorded. This time the size of the attack is a staggering 1.7 Tbps and it was recorded by ATLAS global traffic and DDoS threat[...]

Patent Troll Attacks Against Fastly And Cloudflare, Author Impersonation Money Laundering On Amazon And More In This Weeks News

Fastly settles, Cloudflare strikes back and wins agains patent trolls Blackbird Technologies, a firm founded by two ex-attorneys who previously worked for the world's top tech companies, separately accused Fastly and Cloudflare of violating the same patent - U.S. Patent No. 6,453.335. "Providing an[...]

AWS Brings Own Machine Learning Security to the Cloud, Facebook to Build Another Eco-Friendly Data Center and More in This Week’s News

AWS Introduces Machine Learning Security Service Macie Last week, Amazon Web Services unrolled a new security service for their cloud offerings. Dubbed Macie, the new fully managed service for S3 leverages machine-learning algorithms to identify and protect sensitive data against data leaks and[...]

Google to Slash Poor Performing Apps, F5 Releases IoT Botnet Research Paper and More in This Week's News

Google Takes Aim at Poor Performing Apps Google has recently announced that they’re will be taking further measures on penalizing poor performing apps in their Google Play store.