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Facebook Bug Bounty report for 2014: $1.3M paid out to more than 700 bug finders
Facebook just released details of how much it paid out in bug bounties for 2014.
Rewards ranged from $500 to over $50,000...
Facebook comes up with new ways to reach out to the suicidal
Where would you turn, and what would you do, if you saw a post that seemed suicidal from a Facebook friend? Facebook has some answers.
Koppie Koppie sells photos of your kids to prove you shouldn't post them online
Two "privacy advocates" running an online store that sells mugs printed with pictures of children are intentionally stirring up controversy by grabbing photos from Flickr. The duo behind Koppie Koppie say it's perfectly legal, but they hope you get mad about it anyway.
Facebook to be sued by Native American over real-name policy
Dana Lone Hill, a member of the Lakota people and one of many Native Americans whom Facebook shut out over erroneous reports of fake names, will head the class action lawsuit.
WhatsApp spy tool lets anyone track when you're online
WhatsSpy Public illustrates that fiddling with your privacy settings doesn't stop people from tracking your status and any changes you've made to profile photos, status messages and settings.
What do you mean, "Facebook is now text only"? - 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here's the latest episode of our weekly one-minute security video.
Fun, fast...and educational.
Facebook's new ThreatExchange will rally companies to squash internet badness
Trying to share data on threats is currently a royal pain, Facebook said. The new platform will help companies to collaborate more easily on threats.
How one man could have deleted any photo album he could see on Facebook
Facebook is probably the biggest collection of photographs ever assembled so it would be pretty bad if one man could delete every last one of them with his phone. Thankfully that's what Laxman Muthiyah thought too.
Facebook is telling Native Americans their names are fake
Facebook's still working on its name policy after problems with the LGBT community. Now Native Americans like Dana Lone Hill and Shane Creepingbear are being locked out while they're forced to prove they're for real.
Anonymous takes down dozens of "terrorist" social media accounts in #OpISIS
Infamous hacktivist group Anonymous has begun a new operation designed to take down ISIS sympathisers on the web.
"Facebook porn Trojan" - here's how NOT to get caught
You receive a Facebook posting that offers you something saucy, you click through to the website...
...and guess what happens next?
Facebook's DeepFace facial recognition technology has human-like accuracy
Facebook is going to allow you to blur your face in photos... once it's identified you.
Facebook's got a new privacy policy, and it plans to share your data with partners
As Facebook's new privacy policy comes into force users can expect more sharing of their data and 'enhanced' targeting of adverts across partnered websites.
WhatsApp Web has privacy holes that could expose user photos
WhatsApp has just rolled out a new service called WhatsApp Web that allows users to sync the messaging app between their mobile devices and desktop, but the new web client has a couple of privacy pitfalls that indicate it's not really ready for its close-up.
Facebook to fill with (more!) kittens in Wickr's message-hiding scheme
Secure messaging app Wickr has launched a timed, private photo stream that lets users upload private images to Facebook, covering them with kitten images that only user-selected people can decode.
Facebook vs 25,000 users - privacy class action lawsuit has initial hearing date set
An Austrian court has given the go ahead to a class action lawsuit brought against Facebook for alleged privacy violations across Europe.
Lizard Squad took down Facebook and Instagram! Believe it! Or not...
The hacking-and-cracking crew known as Lizard Squad tweeted that Facebook and Instagram were down.
Before you could say, "But we don't crash EVER," that had turned into "Lizard Squad did it"...
How the Obamacare website healthcare.gov leaks private data
HealthCare.gov, the US insurance exchange website that is a central component of Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act), is sending personal information on users to third parties including Facebook, Google, and web analytics companies.
Fake Facebook account case settled with DEA who admits no wrongdoing
The Feds have agreed to pay $134,000 to settle a case over having taken a phony Facebook profile out to lure suspects. Nothing in the ruling prohibits future use of such deceptive tactics.
School rule-breakers to hand over Facebook and Twitter passwords
US school students in the state of Illinois may be forced to give up their social media passwords if they're suspected of cyberbullying or of otherwise breaking school rules.
