SAN FRANCISCO - Why the Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus outage knocked every corner of Mark Zuckerberg’s empire offline on Monday. It’s a social media blackout that can most charitably be described as “thorough” and seems likely to prove particularly tough to fix. Facebook itself has not confirmed the root cause of its woes, but
SAN FRANCISCO - If your choice of encrypted messaging app is a toss-up between Signal, Telegram and WhatsApp, do not waste your time with anything but Signal. This isn't about which has cuter features, more bells and whistles, or is most convenient to use -- this is about pure privacy. If that's what you're after, nothing beats
WASHINGTON DC - The US Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of more than 40 states and territories sued Facebook on Wednesday, alleging the social media giant had illegally stifled competition by snapping up rivals to protect its monopoly power in social networking. The joint actions focus on Facebook's key acquisitions of Instagram, a photo-sharing service, and WhatsApp, an
SAN FRANCISCO - If you use WhatsApp or Telegram on your web browser, you'll want to shut down the browser and start it up again to keep hackers from taking over your account. A group of researchers from cybersecurity firm Check Point revealed Wednesday that the web browser version of these popular encrypted-messaging apps had
