Updated 5:37 p.m. ET. Facebook says that it has discovered a security breach affecting nearly 50 million accounts and that it's not yet clear whether any information was accessed or any accounts ...

A woman's Facebook account takeover reveals dangerous social engineering tactics and provides lessons on recovery, avoiding ...

Just a week ago, Facebook hit the headlines for weaknesses in its data security. An online database was discovered listing the phone and account numbers for 419 million users. Facebook defended ...

A new Facebook security program has been causing account issues, some users say. (Photo Illustration by Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images) ...

Facebook accounts can be hijacked with just the target's phone number and some hacking skills. That's because of weaknesses in the part of telecoms networks backbone called SS7, long known to be ...

Major sites using Facebook's Single Sign-On don't implement basic security features, potentially making the fallout of last week's hack much worse.

A security feature from Facebook is now the target of complaints from some users who say they are locked out and unable to access their accounts. Skip to content FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV | News ...

Last month, a security researcher named Anand Prakash stumbled on a major flaw in Facebook’s account security. ... Eight days after that, Facebook awarded him $15,000 for reporting the issue.

Benedict has been writing about security issues for over 7 years, first focusing on geopolitics and international relations while at the University of Buckingham.