Facebook Inc. housed dozens of cybercriminal groups that set up shop on the platform as online marketplaces to sell a variety of illegal services, such as stolen credit card information, account theft and spamming tools, a team of researchers found. Cisco Systems Inc.’s Talos security unit uncovered 74 groups with names like "Spam Professional" and "Facebook hack (Phishing)," it said in a blog post published Friday. Those online marketplaces, which counted about 385,000 members, were quite easy to locate for anyone with a Facebook account, the group said. Once a person joined one such group, Facebook’s own algorithms would often suggest similar groups, making criminal hangouts easy to find, according to Talos. Facebook confirmed that the groups, some of which Talos said had been on the platform for as long as eight years, have been removed. "These groups violated our policies against spam and financial fraud and we removed them. We know we need to be more vigilant and we’re investing heavily to fight this type of activity," Facebook said in a statement. The revelation of cybercriminal activity adds to the mounting security and privacy concerns surrounding Facebook. Earlier this week, researchers at cybersecurity firm UpGuard found troves of user information inadvertently posted publicly on Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing servers. — Bloomberg News Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
[ Advertising Age | 2019-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Salesforce.com Inc., which makes America’s dominant sales-tracking software, agreed to buy Tableau Software Inc. in an all-stock deal valued at $15.3 billion that it said will help give customers more ways to analyze data. The takeover will mark Salesforce’s largest deal to date, according to... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-06-10 16:51:13 UTC ]
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A New York man who fled to Ecuador after allegedly trying to defraud Mark Zuckerberg will not be extradited to the US, Reuters reports. Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2019-06-10 12:05:00 UTC ]
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More de-platforming? The great de-platforming of 2019 continues.Read Full Story Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2019-06-10 08:25:29 UTC ]
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Facebook is rolling out its Canadian political ad registry today with a low-tech twist — a bid to prevent people based outside of Canada from running ads in the upcoming federal election. Continue reading at CBC
[ CBC | 2019-06-10 08:00:00 UTC ]
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Social network agrees to meet activists to consider 'going back to drawing board' on its nudity policy. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2019-06-10 07:31:57 UTC ]
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It's a new--wait for it--chapter for bookseller Barnes & Noble, which will be acquired by U.K. investment firm Elliott Advisors in an all-cash deal worth $683 million. Barnes & Noble joins a portfolio that also includes U.K. bookseller Waterstones, which Elliott acquired in June 2018.... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2019-06-07 20:03:20 UTC ]
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Facebook reportedly bans Huawei from installing its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, on new phones. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2019-06-07 19:07:09 UTC ]
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Facebook is urging a judge in Washington, D.C. to halt proceedings in a lawsuit brought by the attorney general Karl Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-06-07 15:14:55 UTC ]
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The block on pre-installed apps on Huawei smartphones will also apply to Instagram and Whatsapp. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2019-06-07 11:40:07 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House has posted the winning bid to acquire the book publishing assets of F+W Media. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-06-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
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They should be seen as communications infrastructure, and be made to serve the public interest. Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2019-06-07 01:34:58 UTC ]
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Facebook knew as early as 2018 that its platform was being used to incite division and violence, a company official told MPs in Ottawa on Thursday. Continue reading at CBC
[ CBC | 2019-06-06 12:45:00 UTC ]
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Independent Facebook investors voted overwhelmingly to fire Mark Zuckerberg as chairman and scrap the firm’s share structure. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2019-06-04 21:05:33 UTC ]
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The row over a fake Nancy Pelosi video shows platforms are no longer disruptors, but incumbents, gatekeepers and publishersIn the first three months of 2019, Facebook removed about 2bn fake accounts from its servers. This is roughly equivalent to all the legitimate accounts the company has on... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-06-02 13:00:38 UTC ]
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Early Friday, a judge sided with Facebook shareholders who demanded the company hand over emails and records related to its handling of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Later in the day, the company was denied again in court, as Reuters reports that... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2019-06-01 07:32:00 UTC ]
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Social platform's latest tech can detect non-consensual intimate images before they're reported, but victims won't be alerted. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2019-05-31 23:30:00 UTC ]
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The European Court of Justice (ECJ) will hear a landmark privacy case regarding the transfer of EU citizens’ data to Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-05-31 19:45:54 UTC ]
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Facebook introduced ads for Stories last September and, while the social network and some of its advertisers are bullish on the option, the jury remains out among the ad community in general. Over 500 million people are using Stories on Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp (where the... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2019-05-31 19:45:16 UTC ]
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Facebook will have to hand over emails and records related to how it handled the Cambridge Analytica scandal. In September, shareholders sued the company in order to obtain information pertaining to the leak. Today, a US judge sided with shareholders... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2019-05-31 19:12:00 UTC ]
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Facebook is investing heavily in a massive solar farm in Texas as it rumbles towards its goal of running entirely on renewable energy by the end of next year. Renewables company Longroad Energy has started building the Prospero Solar project in Andre... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2019-05-31 15:47:00 UTC ]
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