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Facebook to end facial recognition and delete billions of records

By Deeba Ahmed Facebook has announced that it will shut down its Facial Recognition System and delete the templates of over 1 billion people stored by this feature. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Facebook to end facial recognition and delete billions of records

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Facebook sues Ukrainian man for scraping and selling 178m users’ data

By Deeba Ahmed Facebook tracked down the programmer after he mistakenly used the same username and contact information on email and job portals. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Facebook sues Ukrainian man for scraping and selling 178m users’ data

Navy Warship’s Facebook Page Hacked to Stream ‘Age of Empires’ Gaming

The destroyer-class USS Kidd streamed hours of game play in a funny incident that has serious cybersecurity ramifications.

Facebook Blames Outage on Faulty Router Configuration

One easily disproved conspiracy theory linked the ~six-hour outage to a supposed data breach tied to a Sept. 22 hacker forum ad for 1.5B Facebook user records.

Facebook Outage Drags Down Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Oculus VR

They were all flat on their faces for hours on Monday, throwing off DNS error messages or other server-related errors.

Does Your Organization Have a Security.txt File?

It happens all the time: Organizations get hacked because there isn't an obvious way for security researchers to let them know about security vulnerabilities or data leaks. Or maybe it isn't entirely clear who should get the report when remote access to an organization's internal network is being sold in the cybercrime underground. In a bid to minimize these scenarios, a growing number of major companies are adopting "Security.txt," a proposed new Internet standard that helps organizations describe their vulnerability disclosure practices and preferences.