Cambridge Analytica data scandal makes 25% of young adults in America delete Facebook app
Did you delete the Facebook app from your phone or tablet recently? If yes, then you are not the only one who has done so due to privacy concerns. A survey conducted by Pew Research says that nearly 25% of young adults in America have deleted their respective accounts from the Facebook platform after the […]
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp not down due to cyber attack
The long weekend turned out murky to many as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were down to users across the world. And those affected took to Twitter to express their grief about the issue within the first hour. Some complained that the mobile and desktop versions of Facebook-owned sites were down to them till mid-afternoon on […]
FBI Investigates cyber incident on ‘Pro-Russian’ Candidate in Trump Administration
Well, the news is out that a Cyber Attack took place on a democratic rival of Rep.Dana Rohrabacher(R-CA), who is one of the few Pro-Russian candidates in Trump Administration. News source Rolling Stone reports that the attack took place on Dr. Hans Keirstead, who fell short of just 125 votes in the election of California […]
WhatsApp users should be aware of this Cyber Security Vulnerability
All those who are using WhatsApp, you better be aware of this new cybersecurity threat related to WhatsApp. It’s said that a bug in the said messaging app allows hackers to infiltrate into their WhatsApp app and send messages and group chats to near and dear ones without your knowledge. And if this flaw can […]
Facebook asking bank account info and card transactions of users
In what is supposed to be a pure speculation, for now, Facebook, the social media giant is facing a new allegation of approaching banks to share financial data related to its users. The speculations seem ripe based on a recently published Wall Street Journal report that suggests that the Mark Zuckerberg led company is nowadays […]
WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger raise mobile security alerts
Appthority, a leader in offering enterprise mobile threat protection has released its Enterprise Mobile Security Pulse Report for the second quarter of 2018. And the report says that WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger app usage are found to be most risky in enterprise environments on both iOS and Android devices. The company also specified in its […]
UK Watchdog imposes £500,000 penalty on Facebook
UK’s data Watchdog has imposed a penalty of £500,000 pounds on Facebook for fraudulently handing over the personal information of its American users to Cambridge Analytica in 2015. Henceforth the said sum happens to be the largest possible fine imposed by Britain’s Information Commission on any private company till date. The press statement released by […]
Timehop data breach details
New York-based Timehop Company which provides an application for smartphones users to collect their memories from their old social media posts has disclosed that almost all of the private information of all its 21 million users was hacked by cyber crooks last week. The hacked info includes usernames, email address, telephone numbers and the virtual […]
US federal agencies intensify Facebook Cambridge Analytica data scandal investigation
US Federal agencies like FBI, Security and Exchanges Commission and Federal Trade Commission have decided to intensify the probe against Facebook’s involvement in Cambridge Analytica data scandal. So, the probe will now on focus on issues such as whether Facebook knew about the data breach that affected some 71 million American users as early as […]
Facebook acquires Bloomsbury AI to curb Fake News
Facebook is said to be getting ready to buy a London based AI startup named ‘Bloomsbury’, as part of its effort to defend its social media platform from being proliferated with fake news. According to a news post of Techcrunch, Facebook’s plan with the acquisition is to use the technology of Bloomsbury in policing strategies […]
