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Facebook is reportedly buying stolen passwords that hackers are selling on the underground black market in an effort to keep its users' accounts safe. On the one hand, we just came to know that Yahoo did not inform its users of the recently disclosed major 2014 hacking incident that exposed half a billion user accounts even after being aware of the hack in 2014. On the other hand, Facebook takes every single measure to protect its users' security even after the company managed to avoid any kind of security scandal, data breach or hacks that have recently affected top notch companies. Speaking at the Web Summit 2016 technology conference in Portugal, Facebook CSO Alex Stamos said that over 1.3 Billion people use Facebook every day, and keeping them secure is building attack-proof software to keep out hackers, but keeping them safe is actually a huge task. Stamos said there is a difference between 'security' and 'safety,' as he believes that his team...

Web site, a hacker group, whose members are accused of crimes committed after the hole in the exposed customers to AT & T iPad website last year, has been hacked today. At least a couple of hours, obscenity message loads to the site Goatse Security said: "I took the liberty to expose a gaping hole ... As you are self-grow group [profanity drafted], I also contacted the media that this case receives the coverage it deserves. "In cracking this site, send specially crafted requests to the server with my browser card false identity to that of an iPad. Please note that although not played great role in this crack _WAS_ poetic in many ways. Goatsec also gave me the same warning given to AT & T. .. not at all, to repair his hole. User Accounts have been removed, and passwords changed, "it said. This message gave "props" of the FBI and some of the hackers and made disparaging references to AT & T and Apple, for example. Previously CNET contacted by...