It’s clear that big banks provide a lot of incentive for hackers to launch cyber attacks, given the amount of sensitive data they hold and the cash they oversee. But banks aren’t… Read more »
President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Friday designed to spur businesses and the Federal Government to share with each other information related to cybersecurity, hacking and data breaches for… Read more »
It might be a bit more difficult for hackers to launch coordinated attacks against several different companies at the same time thanks to a new collaborative threat-detection framework by Facebook called… Read more »
Facebook’s outage early on Tuesday, which also took out linked services such as Instagram and Tinder, was down to a technical issue caused by the company itself rather than external factors… Read more »
It has been a dramatic 24 hours for Snapchat, which had some internal emails leaked last night via the Sony hack. Sony Entertainment’s CEO, Michael Lynton, sits on Snapchat’s board. There’s been dozens… Read more »
By cross-checking stolen account information on websites that hackers post to, Facebook can update its users on whether or not their data has been compromised. Read more »
Facebook plans to use the security startup’s vCage technology to protect its data centers from malware, unauthorized access and malicious hardware. Read more »
Facebook is trying to make it easier for its developers to write code quickly, so it has built a new programming language called Hack. It’s transitioning as much of its code… Read more »
Buffer was forced to turn its social-sharing service off on Saturday after a number of users found the app was posting diet spam-related content to their social networks without their consent. Read more »