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Pontem, a first-ever framework for decentralized applications on Diem by Facebook, secures $4.5 million from top VCs
2021-6-4 18:40 | |
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Information belonging to 267 million Facebook users found its way onto the dark web for a minuscule price tag of just $540. Facebook once again finds itself in the spotlight after an unknown hacker(s) sold 267 million user profiles on the dark web.
2020-4-23 04:10 | |
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Facebook has had a very difficult year for 2018, starting with the discovery that 87 million users were used by a consulting firm that worked with the campaign to bring President Donald Trump to office.
2019-1-23 00:04 | |
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In early December, Facebook’s developer team declared the discovery of a security bug that gave developers access to photos users hadn’t shared on their timeline, including photos they had posted in Facebook Marketplace or Stories.
2019-1-19 20:00 | |
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In recent years, Facebook has arguably been the most popular app in a lot of major markets across the globe. However, WhatsApp, one of the apps it acquired, has surpassed it in terms of monthly active users.
2019-1-17 15:28 | |
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After Alex Jones was effectively banned from the internet — or at least his major distribution channels — last August, it appeared that we’d be rid of his half-baked conspiracy theories once and for all.
2019-1-12 01:49 | |
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Matt Cox knew he would be criticized when he forced his 10-year-old daughter to walk 5 miles to school in 36-degree weather as her punishment for being suspended from the school bus twice for bullying.
2019-1-11 14:39 | |
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In the days after Facebook‘s September announcement about a bug that may have compromised 90 million users – yes, that was three months and several earth-shattering Facebook headlines ago – someone asked me what consumers could have done to avoid being caught up in yet another data breach.
2018-12-28 22:00 | |
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The data reckoning has arrived. We’re already too familiar with the breach headlines: Equifax, Under Armour, Target. But in 2018, social media brands came under the spotlight as well: half a million accounts’ data were inadvertently exposed in Google+, and another 29 million users’ data in the Facebook breach this fall.
2018-11-24 13:30 | |
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Just when you thought Facebook has put the worst of its troubles behind, the social media giant revealed on Friday that it had experienced a new security incident that possibly affected 90 million users.
2018-11-20 17:28 | |
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Facebook released its community standards report today, in which it detailed how it dealt with fake news, spam, hate speech, and terrorist propaganda on its platform. The company noted that, between April and September 2018, it removed a whopping 1.
2018-11-16 10:16 | |
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Facebook may well look back on 2018 as its annus horribilis. From the Cambridge Analytica scandal in March, to a data breach affecting 29 million users in September, from accusations of fraud over misrepresentation of video viewing figures, to claims that it is destroying the very fabric of society, the social network’s reputation has suffered a battering.
2018-11-1 19:05 | |
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Facebook may well look back on 2018 as its annus horribilis. From the Cambridge Analytica scandal in March, to a data breach affecting 29 million users in September, from accusations of fraud over misrepresentation of video viewing figures, to claims that it is destroying the very fabric of society, the social network’s reputation has suffered a battering.
2018-11-2 19:05 | |
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As the CEO of Hut 8, one of North America’s largest cryptocurrency miners and the world’s largest publicly traded cryptocurrency miner, I’m often asked questions about energy consumption in the mining of cryptocurrency.
2018-11-1 23:35 | |
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To say 2018 has been a difficult year for Facebook is an understatement. The Cambridge Analytica scandal, US senate hearings, and a massive data breach last month have all contributed to making life incredibly difficult for Zuckerberg and friends — and now the EU Parliament wants to add to their troubles.
2018-10-26 17:49 | |
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One of Australia’s oldest institutions, Australia Post, has announced that customers will now be able to buy bitcoin on participating exchanges within minutes through its Digital iD service. Australia Post Delivers Bitcoin Now Australians will be able to buy bitcoin through their post office.
2018-10-25 19:00 | |
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If blockchain-based identity platform Civic is to go mainstream, then making it simple for as many businesses and consumers as possible to start using its app will be key.
2018-10-23 20:50 | |
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Welcome to this week in Blockchain Venture Capital. Cobo Cobo, a Beijing-based cryptoasset wallet startup, recently closed a $13 million Series A round with participants including Wu Capital, DHVC, and the NEO Foundation.
2018-10-20 19:00 | |
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With the exception of the SEC’s FinHub announcement, it has been a quiet week for regulatory news — something we’ve been getting a lot of recently as U. S. officials clamp down on unscrupulous coin offerings and crypto companies.
2018-10-20 17:49 | |
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Facebook today revealed more information about the September data breach that potentially affected up to 50 million users. Now we know roughly what information the attackers accessed, and the number of people they had access to — as well as a help service for those who were effected.
2018-10-13 21:42 | |
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Jacinda Arden, Prime Minister of New Zealand has had her face used by a fake news site in order to promote articles aimed at Facebook to encourage a crypto startup. A local media source, ‘Stuff’ reported on Friday that multiple sponsored posts have recently been promoted on Facebook by using the likeness of the New Zealand PM with headlines such as New Investment Plan For Kiwis which were targeted at several different age groups around the country.
2018-10-12 16:30 | |
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In recent months, TRON has seen some slight upward movement and currently sits at number eleven on the top 100 cryptocurrencies on CoinMarketCap. September is where TRON really found its legs as it was listed on the Crypto Exchange Platform.
2018-10-10 13:30 | |
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Facebook today launched its first hardware products, the Portal and Portal+. A bit like the Amazon Echo Show, they sit somewhere in your home and allow you to talk to your friends and family through the near-universal Facebook Messenger service.
2018-10-8 18:58 | |
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The Independent, a media news site, reported Sept. 29 that Facebook, the world’s largest social media network, discovered another embarrassing hack in mid-September, just a few months after the infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal.
2018-10-8 17:59 | |
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The bad headlines continue to stack up for Facebook this year: from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, to the New York Times report that Facebook gave Apple, Samsung, and other mobile device makers access to its users personal data without permission, to the revelation that the firm routinely gives user information and preferences to several Chinese telecommunications firms, to last week’s security breach in which hackers took control of 50 million user accounts as well as any third-party sites those users logged into via Facebook.
2018-10-6 19:30 | |
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Brendan Eich, the CEO of Brave, has written a letter to the U. S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation urging them to implement GDPR-like legislation in the United States.
2018-10-4 20:51 | |
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Facebook’s data breach from last week – which impacted more than 50 million users – might cost the company a pretty penny. If the European Union’s (EU) watchdog finds that the company violated privacy laws, it could face a massive fine of $1.
2018-10-2 13:00 | |
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This Friday the Guardian reported that nearly 50 million users’ accounts were compromised. According to Facebook the breach was discovered on September 25th and patched two days later. However, the vulnerability allowed hackers to gain sensitive information about users’ accounts, such as photos, private conversations, and the ability to log into any other apps using […] The post Facebook Hacked – What Information Was Compromised? appeared first on NullTX.
2018-10-2 07:41 | |
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On September 25th, Facebook reported a security issue that affected almost 50 million users. Hopefully, this security breach will drive Facebook management to accelerate its efforts to improve data privacy by incorporating blockchain technology.
2018-9-30 07:00 | |
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Facebook today announced a data breach occurred on September 25 affecting at least 50 million Facebook accounts. The social network disclosed the breach Friday morning, issuing a statement that said an “attack” on its system led to “the exposure of information” affecting the 50 million users, according to the New York Times.
2018-9-28 20:09 | |
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Bitmain, the biggest company in bitcoin mining, has filed for its IPO in Hong Kong. As part of the approval process, the company submitted a prospectus to the Hong Kong stock exchange at the end of August 2018.
2018-9-28 23:08 | |
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Asana, the workplace productivity and planning startup founded by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, today announced it had reached 50,000 paying customers. This customer base has grown from 20,000 customers in just six quarters.
2018-9-27 19:00 | |
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Brian Acton – one of the co-founders of the popular messaging app WhatsApp – resigned from Facebook in 2017. And with that, he left $850 million on the table in the form of non-vested stock options.
2018-9-27 16:24 | |
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Kin Ecosystem Foundation, the nonprofit governance organization for the Kin cryptocurrency, has announced the appointment of Matthew DiPietro as its chief marketing officer (CMO) today, September 18, 2018.
2018-9-18 19:38 | |
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Following a high-level proposal in July to ban the importation of all cryptocurrency mining equipment into Vietnam, the Vietnamese Customs Department has announced a total ban on all mining rig imports, according to a local news outlet.
2018-8-16 21:58 | |
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Launched in 2009, the social networking app Foursquare was hailed as providing a cutting-edge approach for users to share their location with friends. Called a “check-in,” people would reveal their location through their mobile device by selecting the venue they were frequenting at that time.
2018-8-15 17:34 | |
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Always on the lookout for novel ways to attract teens, Facebook purchased viral polling app TBH last October. The app fell well short of anything innovative but did manage to snag an estimated 2.
2018-8-9 04:01 | |
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In May 2018, Facebook exploited the personal data of almost 100 million people, firmly placing data privacy and security as hot topics of national conversation. But even before the Facebook… The post uPort’s Danny Zuckerman on Self-Sovereign Identity appeared first on CoinCentral.
2018-8-2 18:14 | |
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According to local Vietnamese news outlet VNExpress, Le Minh Tam, the CEO of Sky Mining, a large cryptocurrency mining company in Vietnam, recently fled with $35 million of investor money. Since his disappearance, investors and board members have not been able to reach the CEO.
2018-8-1 16:18 | |
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After penning the book which inspired “The Social Network,” you may have expected Ben Mezrich’s Winklevoss interest to have waned. However, he recently wrote a new book detailing their adventures in Bitcoin, which will be available next spring.
2018-8-1 10:00 | |
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According to local Vietnamese news outlet VNExpress, Le Minh Tam, the CEO of Sky Mining, a large cryptocurrency mining company in Vietnam, recently fled with $35 million of investor money. Since his disappearance, investors and board members have not been able to reach the CEO.
2018-7-31 20:36 | |
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Every ten years, governments around the world conduct their national census: a count of the resident population. This is no easy task. The 2011 Chinese census, for instance, was a vast operation relying on six million enumerators taking census questionnaires from door to door.
2018-7-29 15:00 | |
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The social network yesterday filed a report with the SEC, which disclosed CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s security allowance. All those extra trips to testify in front of Congress this year must have taken their toll, because he’s now allotted $10 million.
2018-7-27 22:13 | |
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Not so long ago, a great many of us were quite happy to hand over our personal information, without much thought, in return for handy online services that enables millions of us to keep in touch with friends and family.
2018-7-27 14:44 | |
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