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Racial discrimination at Facebook is real.

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Facebook glitch exposes private photos of 6.8 million users

Facebook disclosed the photo glitch earlier on Friday.

15 Dec 2018 4:19 AM

The exhibition space is divided into different galleries for areas like encryption, deception, hacking, cyberwarfare, intelligence. (Photo: Pixabay)

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US to reveal charges against Chinese hackers: sources

Breaches have allowed China to gather large quantities of data on a wide range of American businesses.

8 Dec 2018 4:38 AM

Scrutiny of Facebook has intensified following reports that it failed to prevent the data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica from amassing personal information about millions of users - possibly used to aid Donald Trumps campaign - and that the social network has been collecting Android users phone call and text message histories without notice.

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Facebook's history with privacy: Promises and only promises

Facebook's most notable missteps and promises around privacy.

31 March 2018 4:19 AM

The government wanted Facebook-WhatsApp to appoint a grievance officer and find a technological solution to trace the origin of fake messages.

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US fails to force Facebook to wiretap Messenger calls

The government's request had alarmed technology executives and privacy advocates.

29 Sept 2018 3:56 AM

Facebook is allowing advertisers access to this hidden personal information for custom audience.

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Facebook says hackers could access some apps

One security expert says the hacking attack on FB is serious, but only Facebook knows how serious.

29 Sept 2018 3:51 AM

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes the keynote address at F8, Facebooks developer conference in San Jose, Calif. (Photo: AP)

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Hacked: Facebook says 50M user accounts hit by security breach

Facebook said it doesn't know who was behind the attacks or where they're based.

29 Sept 2018 3:44 AM

$Jio said that bulk of its network is \already built\ and can support more than 60 per cent of estimated 2020-21 India data demand.$ Technology

Calls for law change after Indians left in dark over data leaks

Jio has repeatedly denied any breach took place and said that names, telephone numbers and email addresses of Jio users.

15 July 2017 2:19 AM

FriendFinder Networks says it has more than 600 million registered users across some 40,000 websites in its network.

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Why are hackers shifting their focus to dating websites?

The hack of Adult Friend Finder is the second major hack in a year on dating websites.

24 Nov 2016 5:57 AM

The Candid Board was recently hacked into and around 180k usernames, passwords and other details such as photos and videos were grabbed from the website by some hackers.

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'Upskirt' porn website breach exposes 180,000 accounts

Almost 178,201 unique email addresses, usernames, passwords, DOB, IP addresses were included in the breach.

26 Jan 2017 7:30 AM

The hackers accepted the offer from the Federal Security Service, or FSB, the top KGB successor agency: show their spoils before publishing in exchange for protection.

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US trial set over bitcoin exchange linked to JPMorgan hack probe

Prosecutors contend Lebedev schemed to deceive financial institutions into processing transactions

13 Feb 2017 4:17 PM

$Hunt \has credibility and integrity,\ said UK based security researcher Ian Thornton-Trump, who has used Hunts site to build a system that keeps customer credentials safe from attacks that re-use previously disclosed passwords. Photo: AP$ Technology

Have you been 'pwned' in a data breach? Troy hunt can answer

People using his site can search on their email address to see whether and where their records have been exposed.

6 Dec 2017 3:00 AM