Facebook announced this morning it has acquired PrivateCore, a Palo Alto-based secure server technology company. The deal does not appear to be solely an acqui-hire, as Facebook says that it plans to ...

The next wave of malware to infect you may well be from social networking sites. Already Facebook users are facing so many security issues and so this is a good time ...

The U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command’s Major Cybercrime Unit recommends checking your user privacy and security settings due to a newly released interface for Facebook. This month, Facebook ...

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Facebook turned on a key security feature by default on Wednesday that scrambles data sent by users to the company’s servers, following similar moves in recent years by Web services such as Google and ...

With the ongoing rollout of Facebook’s Timeline feature, security and privacy have never been more important to your digital life. The new layout presents all of your current and past activities on ...

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The so-called darknet, which is accessible via the anonymizing Tor network, has a reputation for being home to many disreputable sites. But now the biggest social network in the world is available via ...

Facebook is the guardian of personal data on around one tenth of the human race, and it’s always under fire for its lapse security. So it’s trying to get really serious about the matter, with two big ...

Since the leaking of the NSA’s PRISM program last month, even more information has come out in understanding just how far-reaching the surveillance was. Now, more than ever, people are looking for ...