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WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook down globally

SRINAGAR — Facebook and its owned applications WhatsApp and Instagram are reporting loading issues as several users worldwide complained. Downdetector showed there were more than 20,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook and Instagram. Meanwhile, the social-media giant’s instant messaging platform WhatsApp was also down for over 14,000 users, while Messenger was down for […]

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Google removes nine Android apps that stole users’ Facebook passwords

Google has removed nine Android apps that were downloaded more than 5.8 million times from its Play marketplace after security researchers revealed they had been stealing users’ Facebook passwords. Analysts for Doctor Web, a Russian anti-malware company, found the apps contained different variations of the Android.PWS.Facebook trojan. All of the apps functioned as expected with […]