Tag: Facebook
Facebook Bans Myanmar Military Accounts on its Platforms
Facebook has banned Myanmar military (Tatmadaw) and military-controlled state and media entities from its Facebook and Instagram platforms. Facebook also prohibited Tatmadaw-linked commercial entities...
What the Experts Have to Say on this Data Privacy Day
On this day in 2007, the Council of Europe first initiated the European Data Protection Day. A day to raise awareness about the best...
Phone Numbers of 533 Mn Facebook Users on Sale via Telegram...
Facebook’s nearly 533 million users from over 100 countries are at risk of being targets of malicious activities. A vulnerability discovered earlier allowed a...
What Australia’s “News Media Bargaining Code” Means for Google
Google notified that it would stop its search engine services in Australia if the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) implements the proposed News...
ShinyHunters Strikes Again! Data of 2.28 Mn “MeetMindful” Users Leaked
Members of the popular dating site MeetMindful encountered bitter news over the weekend after the cybercriminals group ShinyHunters leaked private data of more than...
Facebook Indicts Two Developers for Scraping Users’ Data
Facebook Inc. and Facebook Ireland imposed legal action against two people in Portugal for violating Portugal’s Database Protection Law. The social media giant stated...
Unprotected Server Exposes Scraped Data of 214 Mn Social Media Users
Socialarks, a Chinese social media management company, recently suffered a massive data breach that exposed over 400GB of users’ personally identifiable information (PII).
According to...
Google and Microsoft Join Facebook’s Legal Battle Against Israel’s NSO
Facebook has been at loggerheads with Israel-based hacking company NSO since last year. It has accused the NSO of exploiting a bug in WhatsApp...
Social Media Giants’ Data Collection under FTC Scanner; Amazon, Facebook, and...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of the U.S. has issued orders to nine social media and video streaming giants, asking them to provide data...
How to Report and Regain Access to Your Hacked Facebook Account
Data breaches and security incidents have become rampant across the social media sector, making continuous headlines. There are numerous incidents reported where unwitting users...
