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When police put your photo on a “Wanted” poster for violating probation on two counts of battery, it’s not the best idea to use that photo as your Facebook profile picture. A 42-year-old Florida man learned that lesson the hard way. Police arrested Mack Yearwood last Tuesday on outstanding...

There was an “anomaly” today during testing of a SpaceX rocket at Cape Canaveral… the kind of “anomaly” that creates a spectacular fireball, goes “BOOM,” and leaves a smoke plume in the sky. Happily, nobody was hurt during the incident. However, one very expensive piece of high-profile...

reworked its code to circumvent ad-blockers, couching it to users as an educational move. Because they give you tools to manage your experience (within their boundaries), Facebook said, you wouldn’t need your pesky little ad-blocker anymore! Ad-blocking companies responded swiftly and...

This past weekend my wife's Facebook page got spoofed. We learned what was happening as her phone started a constant stream of alerts from family and friends with messages saying they had just received new friend requests from her. While many thought she had been hacked, in other words someone...

Facebook — one of the world’s largest advertising companies — magnanimously acknowledges that in your life on the internet, you’ve probably encountered some bad ads. And you almost certainly have, because online advertising can be obtrusive, creepy, and irritating to say the least. But Facebook...

A hacker successfully commandeered a Facebook user's profile by conducting a social engineering attack that involved a fake passport. The hack occurred on June 26 when an unidentified attacker contacted the Facebook support team posing as Aaron Thompson, a legitimate Facebook user and resident...

It’s one thing if an online ad is misleading or misrepresents the site that you click on, but what happens when you order an item that isn’t as promised? As overseas clothing companies that market solely through Facebook have proliferated, some customers blame Facebook, even though the site...

Facebook recently patched a vulnerability that allowed attackers to change the content of their messages sent via the Android Messenger app. On Tuesday, Check Point security researcher Roman Zaikin published a blog post in which he outlines the details of the bug: "The vulnerability allows a...

Facebook announced in recent weeks that they’re expanding their advertising empire. With that change, came a stealthy new privacy setting for users — one that all of us are opted-in to by default. Instead of just selling ads on Facebook, or on Facebook platforms (like WhatsApp and Instagram)...

Facebook and Microsoft announced today their plans to lay a massive data cable in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Construction will begin August 2016 and expected to finish in October 2017. Dubbed "MAREA", Spanish for "tide", the cable will reach over 6,600 kilometers of ocean and will be...

Plenty of tech companies are offering very generous rewards to those who manage to find security loopholes in their networks — just ask 10-year-old Jani, who isn’t even old enough to have an Instagram account but still managed to hack the social media network. His reward for doing so? A cool...

At the annual F8 developer conference today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out his vision for how the big blue social network plans to take over the world in the coming decade. There was a lot to his keynote speech, and there will be a lot more to the conference, but two big announcements...

As more than 2,500 coders and corporate-brand caretakers gather this week to hear what's in store for the future of Facebook Inc., the buzzword of the company's event will be bots. The social networking giant is expected by analysts to unveil ways for businesses to build chat bots for Messenger...

You may have seen ads on Facebook or elsewhere online for what look like decent quality and trendy clothes at rock-bottom prices. They have some satisfied customers, but many of these sites offer ill-fitting clothes that barely resemble their photos. When shady overseas fashion purveyors...

A user of mine running XP on an ancient system is having Facebook issues -- he can see all the pictures in the ads but none of the pix anywhere else -- posts, avatars, etc. Any thoughts what setting needs to be switched to fix this? I've written to Facebook support twice -- not even a note to...

A hacker in India has revealed how he found a way to break into any Facebook user’s profile, before alerting the social network to the issue and being rewarded for his work. Anand Prakash is a security engineer in Bangalore who posted to his blog a piece entitled “How I could have hacked all...

Happy 12th birthday, Facebook! As you’d expect, the site looks completely different now compared when it first launched on February 4, 2004. But in case you haven’t been a loyal user since the beginning, we’ll give you a little tour of how the site evolved. Check it out: (Former Business...

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook must face a nationwide class-action lawsuit that is seeking refunds from the giant social network for parents whose children spent their money on the website without permission. That was the ruling of U.S. District Court Judge Beth Labson Freeman who on Tuesday paved...

Thanks to the recent Lenovo debacle, more of the consumer industry has become aware of the unwanted applications that come preinstalled on almost every available PC. This is not a new thing, by any means. Who remembers when it started exactly? In the early days, the software would come in the...

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