UK man arrested on Facebook hacking charges
A 26-year-old U.K. man was arrested Thursday on charges that he tried to hack into the Facebook social-networking site.
Robert McMillan | 04 Jun | Read more
A 26-year-old U.K. man was arrested Thursday on charges that he tried to hack into the Facebook social-networking site.
Robert McMillan | 04 Jun | Read more
Facebook seems unable to stop scammers from circulating malicious Web links that install fake antivirus software on victims' computers.
Robert McMillan | 02 Jun | Read more
Computer users seem to be getting better at spotting fake websites that are trying to steal their passwords, but when it comes to mobile phones, the deck is most definitely stacked against them.
Robert McMillan | 28 May | Read more
Criminals recently spent more than a week siphoning e-mail messages from Hotmail users' accounts, thanks to a programming bug in Microsoft's website.
Robert McMillan | 25 May | Read more
Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter open threats to sensitive corporate data that businesses need to deal with aggressively, Interop attendees were told.
Tim Greene | 14 May | Read more
One day after Symantec uncovered an alleged privacy breach, Facebook released four new features to its security suite, unrelated to the discovery.
Kristin Burnham | 14 May | Read more
To help its hundreds of millions of users prevent unauthorized access to their accounts, Facebook has added an optional verification step to its log-in process.
Juan Carlos Perez | 13 May | Read more
A programming bug on Facebook's website may have accidentally given advertisers and others access to a treasure trove of personal information, according to security researchers at Symantec.
Robert McMillan | 11 May | Read more
Facebook users still do not use privacy controls to protect themselves, and a third of children under 18 are below the site's minimum age of 13, Consumer Reports reported in its June issue.
Problems launching a heavily revamped homepage are being blamed for a major glitch that hit the Twitter service on Tuesday evening.
John E Dunn | 07 Apr | Read more
Twitter is warning users of the popular UberSocial Twitter-messaging software that direct messages they send may not be private.
Robert McMillan | 01 Apr | Read more
After more than six months since announcing the Questions platform and releasing it to a small group of users, Facebook has finally rolled it out -- with some changes -- to everyone.
Kristin Burnham | 26 Mar | Read more
A Web search box some users are seeing on their Facebook interface wasn't inserted by Facebook and could be the result of malware or a rogue browser plug-in or application.
Juan Carlos Perez | 26 Mar | Read more
"I hear his name bandied about a lot, but I don't know him. I don't know who Henson is. He seems to have his hand in a lot of things around here, but I don't particularly know what that means."
Mark Gibbs | 25 Mar | Read more
Yet another reason to take extra precautions while browsing Facebook arose today as reports surfaced that traffic destined for Facebook from AT&T's servers took a misguided loop through China and South Korea this week.
Kristin Burnham | 25 Mar | Read more