Facebook announced on Friday that it has suffered a data breach affecting up to 50 million users. According to a report from the New York Times, Facebook discovered the attack on Tuesday and have contacted the FBI. The exploit reportedly enables attackers to take over control of accounts so, as a precaution, the social network has automatically logged out more than 90 million...

Facebook scans the contents of messages that people send each other on its Messenger app, blocking any content that contravenes its rules, it has emerged. The scandal-hit firm, still reeling from the Cambridge Analytica debacle, checks images and links for illegal or extreme content using automated systems. What you write in your messages may also be read manually if it's flagged to...

Google is shutting down much of its social network, Google+, after user data was left exposed. It said a bug in its software meant information that people believed was private had been accessible by third parties. Google said up to 500,000 users had been affected. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the company knew about the issue in March but did not disclose it. The WSJ...

Last week, Evaldas Rimasauskas of Lithuania plead guilty to US wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering charges, admitting that he had stolen $99m from Facebook and $23m from Google between 2013 and 2015. Rimasauskas's grift was pretty bold. He merely sent Google and Facebook invoices for items they hadn't purchased and that he hadn't provided, which the companies paid...

विराटनगर । सामाजिक सञ्जाल फेसबुकमार्फत चिनजान गरी जबर्जस्ती करणी गरेको आरोपमा एक युवकलाई बुधबार पक्राउ गरिएको छ।  प्रदेश नं १ प्रहरी कार्यालयको जानकारीअनुसार इटहरी उपमहानगरपालिका–१० का २३ वर्षीय रमेश राईलाई इलाका प्रहरी कार्यालय इटहरीले पक्राउ गरेको हो।  राईले फेसबुकमार्फत चिनजान भएकी एक महिलालाई जागिर लगाइदिने भन्दै गत यही पुस २० गते धरानमा भेटघाट गरी इटहरीको एक होटलमा बन्धक...

काठमाडौं : संसारभरका कतिपय प्रयोगकर्ताका लागि आज फेसबुक र इन्स्टाग्राम डाउन भएको छ। तपाईँ फेसबुक त खोल्न सक्नुहुन्छ तर यी दुबै प्लेटफर्मबाट म्यासेज आदानप्रदान गर्न तथा केही नयाँ कुरा पोस्ट् गर्न भने सक्नुहुन्न। अन्नपूर्ण पोस्ट्ले पनि आफ्नो फेसबुक पेजमा कतिपय भिडियो तथा लिंकहरू सेयर गर्न तथा म्यासेन्जरमा म्यासेज पठाउन सकिरहेको छैन। हेर्नुस् स्क्रिनसटः टेक्नोलोजी साइट भर्जले...