Facebook on Friday announced its systems were compromised last month as part of a sophisticated attack exploiting a Java vulnerability. Although the investigation is still ongoing, the company says it ...

Another Friday afternoon, another hacking victim confession. Facebook has announced in a blog post that it's been the target of an attack that gained access to its corporate network using a security ...

Facebook was hacked last week in a zero-day Java attack that struck the laptops of several of its engineers, not long after the Twitter micro social networking website was hit in a similar attack.

Facebook was hacked last month, the company said today, but was keen to stress that they have not found any evidence that user data was compromised. In the note, the one-billion strong social ...

ZDNet's Zack Whittaker detailed the waterhole attack that was injected into a popular iPhone Dev SDK website (no link love due to the potential threat) which compromised the computers of visiting ...

Facebook has announced a new set of Java APIs for encrypting data stored on SD cards. Dubbed "Conceal," the APIs are designed to encrypt large files on disk, initially for Android smartphones. "What ...

Facebook officials said they recently discovered that computers belonging to several of its engineers had been hacked using a zero-day Java attack that installed a collection of previously unseen ...

Facebook has today announced Facebook for Every Phone, an app for any Java enabled phone that allows access to most of Facebook’s features to phones without a way to install native apps. The app will ...

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Facebook has started its figthback against Google and its Google+ project. The company has just released a Java-based version of its mobile application, which should extend its reach to just about ...

Not sure how many people working on Facebook apps were building to the social networking site's Java APIs, but they're probably going to have to stop doing so now. Facebook is dropping official ...