Facebook’s coziness with Washington and the astronomical tax bill its founder could face by exercising a huge cache of stock options are some of the latest details to emerge about the social network following its IPO announcement.
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A hacker who claims to act in defense of Israel has released 100,000 credentials of allegedly Arab users of Facebook in an ongoing row between Israeli and Arab hackers.
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Facebook users have been bombarded with explicit and violent images in the latest malware campaign aimed at the giant social networking site, a security researcher said today.
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Groupon’s initial public offering Friday is off to a big start, and its valuation is expected to reach $13 billion by day’s end.
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When the U.S. Department of Homeland Security receives information about potential threats to the U.S., agents may turn to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
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In last week’s news, Amazon Web Services vulnerabilities were found and fixed, but other cloud service providers are probably susceptible to similar problems discovered by a German research team at Ruhr University Bochum.
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In one of the bigger security news stories Microsoft struck a blow against an emerging botnet called Kelihos by using a legal tactic to take down the botnet’s domain names.
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Perhaps you’ve heard that Facebook has been tweaking the social network a bit? In the past few weeks Facebook has implemented a wide variety of changes–many of which mimic popular features from the rival Google+, and at least one of which leaves me with little reason to continue maintaining my Facebook Page.
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An NLRB administrative Law Judge found that a Buffalo-based non-profit organization acted illegally when it fired five employees last October for posting work-related comments on Facebook.
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It has been widely accepted by both employees and organizations that what you say on a social media network about a company where you’re working could get you fired. A recent decision by a judge in New York may have changed all that after he ordered five people who were fired over comments on Facebook to go back to work.
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