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WhatsApp and Facebook are swimming in links to ticket giveaways for fairs and airlines. Don’t get excited, though; the tickets are fake.

Your online privacy does not depend solely on you. We’ll tell you what your loved ones can give away. (Spoiler: It’s absolutely anything, even DNA.)

The personal data of 257,000 Facebook users, including private messages belonging to 81,000 of them, has leaked online. Hackers claim to have access to 120 million accounts.

The “another friend request from you” hoax on Facebook is gaining traction. Don’t fall for it.

Facebook has been breached, and malefactors gained access to some 50 million accounts. We offer some quick tips for your safety.

Facebook wants to be your financial service and wants your banking data. But do you want Facebook to have it?

WhatsApp for Android can back up your chats to Google Drive. It’s free, but it may hurt older backups. Here’s how to get it right.

Fake airline giveaways won’t win you a ticket, but they might steal your data.

Rumor has it that typing “BFF” as a Facebook comment checks your profile security. We investigate the claim.

Those 50 million Facebook profiles were already harvested

If someone offers cryptocurrency for nothing, remember the only free cheese is in a mousetrap. Here’s what’s really going on.

Facebook sends so many notifications that sometimes it’s tempting just to turn them off. We tell you how to do it — or how to adjust them so they don’t take over your life.

Attackers pretending to be acquaintances asking for money — the story is old, the approaches new. We show you how to avoid the e-bait.

Want to protect your intimate photos from ever going public? Facebook has a suggestion: Upload them yourself!

A story about a large malicious campaign carried out in Facebook Messenger — and how it worked.

Last week, I was chatting with a colleague when our conversation shifted to how much she loves the “On this Day” update from Facebook, which lets her revisit memories from

Facebook’s settings are a moving target. Over the past few years, the company has changed various settings several times, adding, moving, even removing options. Now it’s really easy to get

So, you created a Facebook account, probably more than a few years ago. And maybe you even set it up well, checking through all of the available privacy and security

Do you like privacy? Well, let me introduce you to a new player in the encrypted messaging game: Secret Conversations. It comes from a messaging service many are already using, Facebook

When Facebook bought WhatsApp for a whopping $19 billion, there was no doubt that sooner or later the social media giant would try to recoup its money and turn WhatsApp into something

People are more into texting than talking. About 65% percent of us would prefer to have a long and painful conversation via Whatsapp than to have one-minute phone call or face-to-face meeting.