Tamara Palmer is a DJ, author and publisher of the small-batch print magazine California Eating. If you use two-factor authentication (2FA) to secure your Facebook account, you likely, at some point, ...

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Do you currently have your phone number linked to your Facebook account? It’s for extra security, right? Or maybe to give you a recovery option if you forget your password? Well, you might actually ...

A phone number can mean much more when it’s stored on Facebook’s servers – even if you only provided it to help secure your account. Last February, software engineer Gabriel Lewis tweeted that adding ...

Facebook asks for a user's phone number for a variety of reasons. A phone number can be used to reset a forgotten password; to suggest people you may know so that you can connect with them on Facebook ...

On Thursday, TechCrunch reported that phone numbers associated with millions of Facebook accounts had been exposed after being stored in an unprotected server. In response to reports, a Facebook ...

There are new concerns that a Facebook feature meant solely to authenticate your identity on the social media platform could allow people to find you through your phone number. On Friday, Jeremy Burge ...

Every single Facebook user is or will soon be seeing a link at the top of their desktop news feed asking them to “Stay in control of your account by following these simple security tips”. The link ...

There's no easy way to look up someone's mobile-phone number. White pages? Nope. Directory assistance? Uh-uh. It's something that drives telemarketers and pollsters crazy, as there are millions of ...

Businesses desperately want your email address, but it’s annoying to enter it on mobile. Cue Facebook’s latest News Feed ads. A marketer can buy an ad asking for you to sign-up for a newsletter or ...

Facebook this afternoon made a slight tweak to its S-1 filing for its pending initial public offering, adding some new language indicating that growth in daily average users is higher than growth in ...

Mysuru police investigate a fake Facebook account linked to a Kerala woman's number used in a cyberattack on K.C. Venugopal.