Internal documents show Facebook staffers determined its hands-off approach to political ads and to targeting ads and other political content to users posed significant risks. A Feb. 25 ...

A new wave of malware attacks is targeting Bitcoin and crypto owners through Facebook ads that mimic trusted names in the ...

The FBI is running ads on Facebook in the Washington DC area ... They are very active and pose a security risk to the US and our allies,” Alan E. Kohler Jr., special agent in charge of the ...

In a blog post detailing its findings, the firm’s security researchers explained that NSFW ads are the main lure used in this campaign. These ads are for Facebook pages which feature scantily ...

Plaintiffs in a court case against Facebook have argued that the social network knew about the security risks that lead to a major hack in 2018 but did not warn their users about them. Facebook ...

Fake Bitwarden password manager advertisements on Facebook are pushing ... To mitigate this risk, Bitwarden users are advised to ignore ads prompting extension updates, as Chrome extensions ...

Often revered for bringing people together, the mutual-friends feature on Facebook actually creates myriad security risks and privacy concerns according to a new study. The mutual-friends feature ...

Some ads that children may be exposed to can pose significant security and privacy risks. This can be through specific banners, images, or microsites, crafted by cyber criminals to contain malware ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that including ads in mobile applications (apps) poses privacy and security risks. In a recent study of 100,000 apps in the official ...

Asked about the ads' removal at a U.S. House Intelligence Committee hearing on Thursday, Facebook's head of security policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, said the company would be consistent in taking the ...