Safety issues are no longer ignored by Facebook as this social network giant has launched a page called Facebook Safety. At the time of my writing, Facebook Safety has grown to more than 11,000 fans and another great news is that the articles posted on the Facebook Safety’s Wall are with full focus or direction [...]...

According to Cisco 2010 Midyear Security Report, they found that employees accessing Facebook games at work would cause devastating consequences as companies are at risk due to the online criminals are believed to be developed ways to deliver malware via these games. As a result of the study, Cisco found that 7 percent of Facebook [...]...

In an effort to make it easy for the users to control what kind of data to be shared in order for the applications to work, Facebook has made an important change by launching the simplified data-sharing permission. Beginning from July this year, users will get a single dialog box explaining all of the data [...]...

In an open letter [PDF] addressed to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, 10 privacy groups such as ACLU of Northern California, Center for Democracy and Technology, Center for Digital Democracy, just to name a few, have expressed their Facebook privacy worries connected to some of the user controls found on the users’ profiles. In fact, the [...]...

There has been a great deal of discussion across the Web pertaining to the Facebook security issues. Yet, this week Facebook has taken another measurement whereby app developers are required to verify their accounts before they can create new app. According to the developer’s forum thread, the account verification is done either through mobil...

Today is finally the D-day. So, will you quit Facebook today? For those who don’t know what D-day is all about, today is the “Quit Facebook Day” advocated by a couple of users who have been fed up with Facebook’s privacy issues. They also built a simple site namely Quit Facebook Day and any user [...]...

In an effort to help Facebook users finding out whether or not there is a need for us to review our privacy settings, an app called “Privacy Check” has been developed by rabidgremlin.com. To use it is very simple, just log on with your Facebook credentials, you’ll get your privacy score. Apparently, there are three [...]...

Note to Facebook users: You’ll most likely receive more phishing emails on Facebook than you’re on Google, IRS (Internal Revenue Service) and RapidShare, according to a scam report released by Kaspersky Lab this month. Perhaps it’s no big surprise as Facebook has more than 400 million users and became one of the most popular targe...

Thinking of your account safety but you do not know how to configure Facebook privacy settings properly? Watch the embedded video in the below and see if it’s right for you. In fact, the video was produced by ConnectSafely.org, a non-profit Internet safety organization and it’s a 5 and a-half min length video. Enjoy!...

As announced in Facebook’s official blog, they have introduced two main new security features to further protect their user accounts from hackers and scammers. From now on, users can choose to be notified when their accounts are being accessed from the computers or mobile devices they haven’t used before. Should Facebook detect any susp...