Cybercriminals left an ElasticSearch database exposed, revealing a global attack that compromised Facebook accounts and used them to scam others. Researchers have uncovered a wide-ranging global scam ...

Millions of phone numbers publicly listed by Facebook users were shared in an online forum where hackers hang out. A database containing more than 267 million Facebook phone numbers and user IDs were ...

A security researcher reportedly found the more than 419 million records in an unprotected database Hundreds of millions of Facebook users’ personal information — including phone numbers, name and ...

Recently we described an idea called the database of affinity: A catalogue of people’s tastes and preferences collected by observing their social behaviors on sites like Facebook and Twitter. Why are ...

-A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook and Microsoft is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a ...

This week, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter announced a new database for images and videos that promote terrorism. The database, which is hosted by Facebook, is designed as a defense against ...

Facebook continues to pull back the curtain on some of the technical details behind its search products, this time with a new look at the Social Graph. See also: Understanding Unicorn: A deep dive ...

It’s a good day for a chokehold. This was the Facebook post of a Phoenix police officer. In a different post, a Philadelphia police lieutenant recounted a courthouse scene in which a defendant and his ...

An unsecured database with account details relating to 267 million Facebook Inc. users has been found online and has already been shared on a hacking forum. Discovered and publicized today by security ...

Cybersecurity researchers said on Thursday that more than 267 million Facebook users had their personal data exposed in an online database that collected their names, Facebook IDs, and phone numbers.

Facebook went offline for the second time in two days yesterday. The Thursday outage–which lasted more than two hours for some users–is a tale of a database control gone awry and illustrates the need ...