Daily Archives: October 12, 2018



In a letter addressed to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Senators Mark Warner and Marco Rubio make a very public case that Canada should leave Chinese tech and telecom giant Huawei out of its plans to build a next-generation mobile network. “While Canada has strong telecommunication security safeguards in place, we have serious concerns that […]

U.S. lawmakers warn Canada to keep Huawei out of its ...







In April, TechCrunch broke the news that some of Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook messages were deleted from recipients’ inboxes in what some saw as a violation of user trust and abuse of power since Facebook Messenger doesn’t have an Unsend button. The next morning, Facebook suddenly announced that it would actually build this Unsend functionality for […]

Facebook prototypes Unsend 6 months after Zuckerberg retracted messages



Facebook has announced a relatively small but significant purge of bad actors from the platform: 810 pages and accounts that have "consistently broken our rules against spam and coordinated inauthentic behavior." It may not seem like a lot, but it sounds like the company is erring on the side of disclosure even if the news isn't particularly hard-hitting.

Facebook bans hundreds of clickbait farms for ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’


Facebook has announced a relatively small but significant purge of bad actors from the platform: 810 pages and accounts that have "consistently broken our rules against spam and coordinated inauthentic behavior." It may not seem like a lot, but it sounds like the company is erring on the side of disclosure even if the news isn't particularly hard-hitting.

Facebook bans hundreds of clickbait farms for ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’



Are you one of the 30 million users hit by Facebook’s access token breach announced two weeks ago? Here’s how to find out. Facebook breach saw 15M users’ names & contact info accessed, 14M’s bios too Visit this Facebook Help center link while logged in: https://www.facebook.com/help/securitynotice?ref=sec. Scroll down to the section “Is my Facebook account impacted by […]

Here’s how to find out if your Facebook was hacked ...


Facebook has now detailed what data was scraped and stolen in the breach it revealed two weeks ago. 30 million users, not 50 million as it initially estimated, had their access tokens stolen by hackers. Users can check Facebook’s Help Center to find out if their information was accessed, and Facebook will send customized alerts to […]

Facebook breach saw 15M users’ names & contact info stolen, ...