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Facebook finds “no evidence” attackers accessed third-party apps
To play it safe, it’s building a tool to let developers manually identify any of their users who may have been affected by the big breach.
Hackers demand ransom from hijacked Instagram influencers
Hackers are taking over high-profile Instagram users’ accounts and holding them to ransom, revealed reports this week.
Facebook: turn off SMS 2FA if you don’t want your number used for ads
Facebook has been adding phone numbers registered for 2FA to the other data it uses to target people with advertising.
Facebook scolds police for using fake accounts to snoop on citizens
Put down that “Bob Smith” fake account and back off, Facebook told the Memphis Police Department, waving its real-names policy in the air.
Millions of Twitter DMs may have been exposed by year-long bug
Though the bug was present for over a year, Twitter hasn’t found any DMs or protected tweets that were delivered to the wrong developer.
Facebook faces sanctions if it drags its feet on data transparency
The EU justice commissioner said she’s out of patience. Also, she quit Facebook because it’s a “channel of dirt.”
How Facebook wants to protect political campaigners from hacking
The social network is trying to protect candidates, elected officials and their staff from “hackers and foreign adversaries”.
Deepfake pics and videos set off Facebook’s fake news detector
The social network is expanding its effort to stamp out fake news.
Facebook’s robot coders step into the future of programming
Like a good junior programmer, Facebook’s AI is cutting its teeth with a bit of bug fixing.