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Facebook Donates $1M in New Funds for Internet Security at Black Hat (eWeek)

Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos outlined his views in an hour-long keynote at the Black Hat USA conference here on how the security industry should improve and also ann... More

U.S. Tech Firms Promise Terror Content Crackdown (Bank Info Security)

Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter have promised to better identify and remove terror-related videos and imagery that get posted to their online properties by sharing informat... More

Poison .JPG Spreading Ransomware Through Facebook Messenger (The Register)

Checkpoint has found an image obfuscation trick it thinks may be behind a recent massive phishing campaign on Facebook that's distributing the dangerous Locky ransomware. The secu... More

There Is No Such Thing as Private Data (The Atlantic)

Just a few years after social media began to permeate students’ high-school experiences, the terrifying rumors began to spread: a liberal arts college that rescinded an admission... More

How Attackers can Hijack Your Facebook Account (Help Net Security)

Positive Technologies researchers have demonstrated that knowing a user’s phone number and how to exploit a vulnerability in the SS7 network is enough to hijack that user’s Fac... More

Facebook’s Plan to Train a New Generation of Cyber Security Pros (CS Monitor)

Facebook likes hackers. Not the kind that break into its accounts, but the ethical kind that can find and fix software vulnerabilities that plague massive tech companies. In fact,... More