In a newsroom post today, Facebook explained how cloaking works. The “bad actors” behind the content hide the true destination of their posts, allowing an innocuous-looking link to direct you to a ...

Protecting News Feed users from inadvertently accessing unwanted content is a noble goal, but Facebook has a vested interest in ensuring the content meets its stated policies because any offensive ...

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Facebook is taking aim at scammers who use bait-and-switch tricks to sneak sketchy ads past its inspectors. Hackers have long been able to bypass the social network's rules against ads for things like ...

“Cloaking” sounds sci-fi, but it’s actually a trick used today by spammers to show content moderators or search engine spiders an innocent-looking version of their site while real visitors just see ...

Members of a hacking think-tank called Blackhat Academy claim that Facebook’s URL scanning systems can be tricked into thinking malicious pages are clean by using simple content cloaking techniques.

"I want Facebook to start removing entire user data after pressing 'Delete my account,'" he wrote. "Is this so much to ask. This is fair, isn’t it?" One would think so but alas no. I doubt FB will ...