Facebook disables bug used to expose Zuckerberg photos
A Facebook bug came back to haunt the company's co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
Sharon Gaudin | 08 Dec | Read more
A Facebook bug came back to haunt the company's co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
Sharon Gaudin | 08 Dec | Read more
A brokerage and investment banking firm downgraded Google from "buy" to "hold" because of the growing threat from social media companies like Facebook.
Sharon Gaudin | 06 Oct | Read more
Facebook's tracking technology has landed the social network in hot water, with two lawmakers calling for a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigation.
Sharon Gaudin | 30 Sep | Read more
Facebook's new Timeline will make it even easier for criminals and others to mine the social network for personal information they can use to launch malicious attacks and steal passwords, a researcher said today.
Gregg Keizer | 24 Sep | Read more
Anonymous, which has claimed credit for several high-profile cyber attacks in recent months, plans to launch what it says will be a new social networking site called AnonPlus.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 19 Jul | Read more
Now that Connecticut Attorney General George has joined the brouhaha around Facebook's new facial recognition feature, it's possible the flap could get bigger.
Sharon Gaudin | 18 Jun | Read more
The privacy flap over Facebook's new facial recognition service has gained some momentum.
Sharon Gaudin | 14 Jun | Read more
Facebook said it's working with European Union regulators to resolve criticism about its new facial recognition feature, but trouble may also be brewing for the social network here in the U.S.
Sharon Gaudin | 10 Jun | Read more
Facebook's move to enable facial recognition across its entire social networking site is raising some eyebrows - and possibly some legal woes -- over its privacy implications.
Sharon Gaudin | 09 Jun | Read more
When Google announced that hackers had gone after Gmail users, the company noted that they specifically targeted U.S. government officials and military personnel.
Sharon Gaudin | 04 Jun | Read more
A Chinese official today denied accusations that the government was responsible for attacks that accessed hundreds of Google Gmail accounts.
Gregg Keizer | 03 Jun | Read more
California is considering legislation that would tighten Facebook's privacy practices, and the social network is not happy about it.
Sharon Gaudin | 18 May | Read more
Facebook has been caught hiring a well-known PR firm to plant anti-Google stories in the media.
Sharon Gaudin | 13 May | Read more
Facebook today denied that it may have accidentally exposed personal user data to advertisers and other third parties for several years, as claimed this week by two security researchers at Symantec Corp.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 12 May | Read more
It's been six days and the PlayStation Network is still offline, and now Sony has acknowledged that the problem involved a security breach.
Sharon Gaudin | 27 Apr | Read more