Academics from Stanford and Princeton release an online tool called Footprints that correlates browsing history with Twitter feeds to reveal a users identity.

The latest on the Yahoo breach, Germany’s problem with WhatsApp-Facebook, Facebook’s osquery tool for Windows, and Zerodium’s $1.5M iOS bounty are all discussed.

A German privacy regulator issued an order this week prohibiting Facebook to stop collecting user data on German WhatsApp users.

Facebook finished porting its SQL-powered detection tool, osquery, to Windows this week.

Google released its smart messaging app called Allo, but a decision to log chats indefinitely has privacy advocates worried.

Facebook quickly resolved a vulnerability in its Business Manager late last month that could have let an attacker take over any Facebook page.

Alleging a trail of broken promises, two privacy-focused advocacy groups yesterday filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against a recent WhatsApp privacy policy change that states it will begin sharing user data with parent company Facebook. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) said in a joint...

Facebook today began a test program rolling out opt-in end-to-end encryption for its Messenger service called Secret Conversations. The end-to-end encryption is based on the Signal protocol developed by Open Whisper Systems, the same protocol that stands up the crypto in the Signal and WhatsApp messaging applications. The Facebook version of the encryption service is...

Facebook today began a test program rolling out opt-in end-to-end encryption for its Messenger service called Secret Conversations. The end-to-end encryption is based on the Signal protocol developed by Open Whisper Systems, the same protocol that stands up the crypto in the Signal and WhatsApp messaging applications. The Facebook version of the encryption service is...

Facebook has patched a vulnerability in the desktop and mobile versions of its Messenger app that allows an attacker to access and modify chats, exposing the victim to potential fraud and malware. Researchers at Check Point Software Technologies privately disclosed the issue May 2 to Facebook, which patched it two weeks later. The flaw, Check...