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Facebook has disclosed a flaw on its social network that made passwords of hundreds of millions of users visible to employees and said the issue has now been fixed. During a security review in January, Facebook found that the passwords were stored in a readable format, against its security procedures, but that they were never…
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There are “further questions to be answered” by Silicon Valley’s tech giants following the terror attack in Christchurch, according to New Zealand’s prime minister – but she might find the answers unsatisfactory. Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and others ‘broadcast’ footage which showed the massacre. I use the word ‘broadcast’ deliberately – and some of the internet…
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FACEBOOK CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said his company wants to integrate WhatsApp and Instagram, adding that services from both applications will function under a single messaging platform–Facebook Messenger. The idea behind Zuckerberg’s new business plan is to enhance communication between users across the three platforms. According to The New York Times, this project will be…
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In a bid to protect user conversations further, the popular messaging app WhatsApp has reportedly been working on a new feature. A report in WABetaInfo revealed that the Facebook-owned messaging app has been testing its new fingerprint lock feature, which would add an additional layer of protection for WhatsApp users. The report pointed out that the…
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Although Facebook has been run by its founder Mark Zuckerberg for many years, the young entrepreneur is believed to be looking for a new leader to take up the mantle. Due to the alleged privacy violations and fake news regarding Facebook in 2016, the company now faces a lot of backlash from users. The…
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In yet another data breach, Facebook has revealed that a software bug caused photos of millions of its users being exposed. According to the world’s largest social media network, over 12 days in the month of September, several third-party applications gained access to “broader set of photos than usual.” Facebook said that the bug…
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Gripped with a string of scandals that have impacted not only Facebook shares but also his personal wealth, the company’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has now defended the company and his own role at the world’s largest social media giant. In a recent interview with CNN, Zuckerberg clarified that he had no intentions…
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Facebook hit a low point this week following a string of scandals since the start of 2018. A damaging report published by The New York Times this week added another shocking controversy to the growing troubles facing Facebook, and caused the company’s shares to slide to their lowest since April 2017. However, the company’s boss,…
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The Federal High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State on Wednesday sentenced one Ayan Olubunmi to two years in prison and a fine N500,000 for posting nude pictures of his ex-lover, Arare Monica, on Facebook. The case with the suit number FHC/AD/17c/2017 was between the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, SAN and Ayan…
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In the aftermath of the shocking discovery of a large web of political influence campaigns spread across various social media networks, Instagram has now decided to take some serious measures. The Facebook-owned photo-sharing site has announced that its more than 1 billion users will now be able to evaluate the authenticity of accounts. The announcement…
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Mark Zuckerberg admits that managing human and material resources could be a mountainous task, and it is unarguably so when there are over 30,000 employees, 1.47 billion active users, and investments worth billions of U.S. dollars to control. However, Zuckerberg says there is a simple trick to Human Resource management: Hire people you would be…
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Facebook on Thursday published its earnings report with forecast of decline in revenue. The market development triggered a significant fall of company’s stocks value and investors are reportedly scared of a slow-down in the social network giant’s revenue growth. Facebook shares dropped over 19% in trading on Thursday, a market trend which has been the…
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Alleging that Facebook broke the law by failing to safeguard people’s information, Britain’s information regulator has indicated that the social media giant would now face huge fines. In the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the British regulator has alleged that Facebook was not transparent about how data was harvested by others on its platform. The regulator said…
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The EU’s extremely controversial Copyright Reform — which might introduce upload filters, ancillary copyright, and restrictions on text and data mining — will finally go to a vote on June 20. It’s not certain how the vote will go as members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are still split on key articles of the reform,…
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In homes and pubs, on leaflets and lampposts, debate is raging in Ireland over whether to lift the country’s decades-old ban on abortion. Pro-repeal banners declare: “Her choice: vote yes.” Anti-abortion placards warn against a “license to kill.” Online, the argument is just as charged — and more shadowy, as unregulated ads of uncertain origin battle…
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WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum fell out with Facebook (the parent company) over efforts aimed at weakening WhatsApp’s encryption in order to use its data in monetizing over 1.5bn users. Image: Jan Koum Jan Koum, the co-founder of WhatsApp sold his firm to Facebook in 2014 for $19bn and has now found cogent reasons to quit…
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