Former Facebook Security Chief: Increased Privacy Complicates Safety By Henry T. Casey Facebook's big new focus on privacy comes with significant ramifications for safety, according to its former chief of security.
Here's How Facebook Plans to Clean Up Its Privacy Mess By Monica Chin To clean up the past year's fiascos, Mark Zuckerberg has a list of actions Facebook plans to make its platform more secure in the future.
How To Stop Facebook From Blabbing Out Your Phone Number By Monica Chin Facebook makes your mobile number public by default. Here's how to protect your phone number from snoops.
Your TurboTax Account Could Be Stolen: What to Do Now By Paul Wagenseil TurboTax locked many users out of their accounts last week after crooks broke into the accounts using stolen passwords.
Meet the Emoji Class of 2019 By Richard Priday Expect to see figures with disabilities, more skin tones, new animals and food and more.
Lawmakers, Apple Scold Facebook for Targeting Teens’ Info (Update) By Jesus Diaz Facebook paid users $20 a month to use an app that got full access to their phones, including screenshots of their Amazon purchase activity.
How Tech Can Help Domestic Abuse Victims By Paul Wagenseil Today's technology can aid domestic abusers in terrorizing and controlling their victims -- but it can also help the victims break free.
Most Americans Still Don't Know Facebook Tracks Them By Monica Chin Facebook lets advertisers see your politics, hometowns, ethnicity, marital status and more -- but most American users have no idea.
Twitter Beta Testing Aims to Make Service Nicer By Don Reisinger Twitter plans to test new features to make the social network more positive and pleasant, according to a new report.
Apple May Make iMessage Work with Android (Report) By Don Reisinger Slide presented at recent event suggests Apple, like Google and Microsoft, may adopt next-gen RCS standard to replace SMS text messaging.
Snapchat Unveils Lenses for Dogs - How to Use Them By Mike Prospero You can now add fun animations to your best friend in Snapchat.
Facebook Let Other Companies Read Your Private Messages (Update: Netflix Responds) By Richard Priday, Monica Chin Even with maximum privacy settings, Facebook still let companies access users' information, and that of their Facebook friends.
Meet the AI That Could Solve Facebook's Bug Problem By Marc Chacksfield To make sure Facebook’s app works fine, there’s a huge amount of engineering involved behind the scenes.
New Google Plus Leak Hits 52 Million, Service Will Shut Down Sooner By Paul Wagenseil Google Plus accidentally let third-party apps view private information, such as dates of birth, and will shut down four months earlier.
It's Official! Google Is Killing Allo, Its Little-Used Messaging App By Richard Priday The app will go offline for good after two years of operation, but Google’s other chat apps will use continue to develop its features
Instagram Unveils 'Close Friends' Feature: How to Use It By Monica Chin Here's how you can share a Story to only your closest friends.
Facebook Messenger Begins Rolling Out Unsend Feature By Adam Ismail After teasing the feature in April, Facebook is finally making good on its promise to let users unsend messages.
Facebook Messenger Is Getting a Much-Needed Overhaul By Philip Michaels Facebook is rolling out a new version of Messenger that reduces the number of tabs with an eye toward simplifying its popular chat app.
Whoops! Facebook Portal Collects User Data After All By Monica Chin Facebook admits that its Portal smart home hub does in fact collect user data for ads.
How to Check If You Were Part of Facebook's Data Breach By Paul Wagenseil Facebook now has a page where you can go to see whether your account was affected in the company's recent data breach.
Google to Kill Google Plus Due to Possible Data Breach By Paul Wagenseil Google will shut down its unpopular Google Plus social-networking service after a data leak compromised the personal data of 500,000 users.
Facebook Data Breach Hits 50 Million Users By Paul Wagenseil Facebook said nearly 50 million user accounts had been compromised in a data breach that involved possible takeover of user accounts.
Facebook Weaponizes Security Feature to Blast Ads at You By Don Reisinger The world's largest social network is using two-factor authentication in a decidedly unethical way.
Credit Freezes Are Now Free: Here's Why to Get One By Paul Wagenseil Freezing your credit is now free, thanks to a new federal law. Here's why you should take advantage of this opportunity.
Instagram Increases Security Measures: What to Do Now By Jesus Diaz Instagram is rolling out support for two-factor authentication apps, detailed public account info, and new account verification.
Facebook Fighting FBI Over Encrypted Messages: Report By Paul Wagenseil Facebook is facing contempt-of-court charges over its refusal to decrypt Messenger voice conversations, according to a report.
Apple Is Fixing iMessage's Spam Problem By Don Reisinger Apple is said to be working on a new tool that would stop spam and other content from getting to iMessage.
How LifeLock Exposed Your Email Address By Marshall Honorof A bug on the LifeLock website let you look up email addresses of any of its subscribers with a few trivial number substitutions.
Samsung Phones Randomly Texting Photos and No One Knows Why (Update) By Paul Wagenseil Multiple reports say Samsung phones using T-Mobile as the carrier have been spontaneously sending texts and photos to other users.
YouTube Premieres Unveiled: What You Need to Know By Monica Chin YouTube Premieres gives creators a way to schedule pre-recorded videos for a live moment and let fans chat ahead of the big debut.
