Facebook on Friday announced its systems were compromised last month as part of a sophisticated attack exploiting a Java vulnerability. Although the investigation is still ongoing, the company says it ...

Another Friday afternoon, another hacking victim confession. Facebook has announced in a blog post that it's been the target of an attack that gained access to its corporate network using a security ...

It's never good when you have to make an official report to the public about a hacker attack your multi-billion dollar social network has had. That's what's happened this week as Facebook's Chief ...

Facebook was hacked last week in a zero-day Java attack that struck the laptops of several of its engineers, not long after the Twitter micro social networking website was hit in a similar attack.

ZDNet's Zack Whittaker detailed the waterhole attack that was injected into a popular iPhone Dev SDK website (no link love due to the potential threat) which compromised the computers of visiting ...

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Facebook officials said they recently discovered that computers belonging to several of its engineers had been hacked using a zero-day Java attack that installed a collection of previously unseen ...

Facebook has announced a new set of Java APIs for encrypting data stored on SD cards. Dubbed "Conceal," the APIs are designed to encrypt large files on disk, initially for Android smartphones. "What ...

Twitter, Facebook, and Apple have all been the victim of recent attacks by hackers. While US newspapers have been fending off attacks allegedly originating in China, however, these attacks have come ...

Facebook has started its figthback against Google and its Google+ project. The company has just released a Java-based version of its mobile application, which should extend its reach to just about ...