Proton Mail Supports Encrypted Emails From Facebook

The free encrypted email service Proton Mail has a new feature added allowing users now receive encrypted emails from Facebook that are automatically decrypted. To make this possible, PGP encrypted emails from Facebook supported. The social networking site decided in June to send encrypted e-mail notifications support.

Facebook users can add their OpenPGP public key to their profile. This key is then used by Facebook for encrypting the email notifications that are sent to the email address of the user. Facebook has chosen to implement the e-mail encryption for GNU Privacy Guard (GPG), the popular and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard.

Ease of Use

Proton Mail claims to be the first e-mail service that supports the PGP-encrypted e-mails from Facebook now "seamless".This means that PGP-encrypted messages from Facebook automatically open in Proton Mail. Previously internet users had to use PGP in Facebook install the PGP software, keys generate and use different plug-ins. Proton Mail users now only need to key in their public Facebook import. If it is the developers will automate this process in the future.

"If we really want a more private and secure Internet is crucial to work together and we congratulate Facebook for the use of open standards," according to the developers of Proton Mail. "We are pleased that major players such as Facebook support these efforts and as more companies will join in the movement to improve online privacy not stop." Proton Mail was developed with the help of scientists from Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the European research lab CERN.

Facebook Lets 2 Million Computers Remove Malware

Thanks to Facebook more than 2 million computers have been virus-free for the past three months again.When logging on to the social networking site Facebook detected that the computers were infected with malware. Then, users were offered a tool to remove the infection.

The removal tool runs in the background and users will see a notification when the scan is performed. Facebook already offered the tools of ESET, F-Secure and Trend Micro, and there is now also the Malware Scan for Facebook joined Kaspersky Lab as the social networking site let know . In total, there would be via the scanner Kaspersky Lab for over 260,000 Facebook users have been helped.

Government Asks Facebook 76 Times For User Data

In the last half of last year, the Dutch authorities Facebook 76 times asked for user data. The data requests had 84 users / accounts relate. In about 65% of the cases data was given. That let Facebook know in a new transparency report.

In the first half of 2014, the social networking site got 41 more requests related to 45 accounts. This data was presented in 56% of cases. The total number of requests of last year amounted to 117 and 129 accounts were sought information. In 2013, Facebook began tracking data requests. That year, however, received the social network 34 requests related to 43 accounts.In one year the number of requests and sought accounts is therefore tripled.

Facebook also claims that there is an increase in the number of government requests occurred worldwide. Worldwide, there was relative to the first half of 2014, an increase of 11%. In the United States and Germany, the number of data requests suffers. Facebook states that it evaluates each data request and in the case of imperfections will fight back. "We also continue to exert pressure so that governments around the world adjust their surveillance policies in a way that benefits the security of people, while their rights and freedoms continue to be protected."

Cyber ​​Vandals Caim Downtime Facebook And Instagram

A group of cyber vandals has claimed responsibility for the downtime that Facebook, Instagram and Tinder had this morning to make. The websites were inaccessible short time in which Facebook users an hour could not log on to the social networking site.

The website stated that the Facebook deal with a major failure was the cause and had found, but further details were not given. Via Twitter late group Lizard Squad managed to sit behind the downtime. This group was the end of December also responsible for attacks on Microsoft Xbox Live and Playstation Network. The DDoS attacks that would execute the group of websites hacked thousands of routers originate. Recently, several members of the group arrested .

Facebook said in a statement that a technical adjustment to the website was the culprit. "The downtime was caused by a technical problem that we introduced ourselves. It has nothing to do with Lizard Squad Snowmageddon or other external parties," said the social networking site.

Facebook Will Warn Users Of Hoaxes

Facebook has introduced a measure to allow users henceforth be warned of hoaxes in their news.According to the social networking site users would have asked for his show fewer messages hoaxes.Facebook regularly false or misleading news spread, which may or may not point to scam sites.

Facebook Hoax Feature

Recently, Facebook has added an option allowing users to report these types of hoaxes. It works the same way as reporting spam and according to Facebook would hoaxes and misleading news reported 2.5 times more than other news. These reports from users are now used by Facebook to let other users know that the messages that they want to share is probably a hoax.

In this way, users would spread the messages slower, which should reduce the number of hoaxes. Facebook is certainly not going to attempt to remove posts and says that it is also about control messages to determine their accuracy. According to Facebook's most publishers on Facebook will therefore none of the update notice, except for a small group which regularly publishes hoaxes and scams.

Shielded Instagram Pictures Were Still Public

Photos on the popular social networking site where users thought they were screened were still accessible to others. The problem was caused by the way dealt with Instagram photos shielded and public accounts. By default Instagram accounts public.

However, users can protect their account and choose to share photos only followers. Photos that were shared for this adjustment could still be viewed as the URL of the picture was known, even though the user thought they were screened, as reported Quartz. Instagram has corrected the problem this weekend so photos shielded accounts really are screened, regardless of whether they were previously accessible via a public profile.

Researcher hacks Facebook with Word document .Docx

A researcher has managed to execute malicious code on the Facebook servers by uploading a specially prepared Word document. The vulnerability was on Facebooks career website where people who want to work with Facebook to upload their CV as pdf or docx document. Researcher Mohamed Ramadan , however, knew docx files actually are zipped XML files.

He opened his cv.docx with zip utilities 7zip and discovered several XML files. Then he added code so that the server of Facebook connection with his server would. Initially Ramadan thought his code did not work, until he saw that after a quarter of a server Facebook indeed made its server connection.

According to the investigator, he could make use of it in various ways, such as performing a Denial of Service, TCP-scans and other commands. Facebook initially thought there was no problem and that a recruiter file cv.docx had opened and had clicked on the link. However, not much later the social networking site that it indeed was a vulnerability, which has now been resolved. Ramadan received for his bug melding an amount of 6300 dollars.