Facebook Fixes Chat Bug

May 8th, 2010

Good news for the Facebook users, Facebook has re-enabled its chat feature. In fact, the chat feature was down for maintenance on Wednesday in response to a report that exposed a security bug. In the report, it said users can access and view the private chat messages and also the pending friend requests by simply [...]...

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Warning: Beware of Fake Facebook New Toolbar

May 8th, 2010

If you came across an email asking you to download the Facebook toolbar, with the email heading, i.e. Try the New Facebook Toolbar! Please delete it straight away. As shown in the below picture, it is clear that the virus authors are using a subtle way to lure potential victims into downloading a toolbar. Perhaps, [...]...

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52 Percent of Social Network Users Post Risky Information

May 7th, 2010

The nonprofit research organization Consumer Reports National Research Center surveyed 2,000 online households and found that 52 percent of adult social network users have posted personal information such their full birth date which can increase their risk of becoming a victim of cybercrime. The survey — which was conducted in January this year a...

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Facebook Fails WhatApp’s Privacy Test

May 3rd, 2010

WhatApp, a Stanford-initiated site that reviewed the privacy, security and openness of the popular Web services or mobile apps has rated Facebook’s privacy significantly lower than that of other platforms such as Twitter and iPhone. As shown in the below picture, Facebook only received 2 points out of 5 in three categories of privacy, securit...

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How to Opt Out of Facebook’s Instant Personalization

May 2nd, 2010

Most recently, Facebook has introduced the “Social Graph” concept whereby an array of new features are developed in order to help making the Web better by encouraging more “instant social and personal” experiences. One of the features is that the selected partner sites of Facebook such as Microsoft Docs.com, Pandora, and Yel...

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Again, Trojan Bredolab Masked As Facebook Password Reset Confirmation

April 30th, 2010

Panda Labs has detected a new Bredolab variant masking itself as the “Facebook Password Reset Confirmation! Support Message.” As shown in the below picture, you’ll notice that the From in the email is labeled as “Facebook Manager” and typically, the sender address is spoofed. The attachment is entitled as Facebook_docu...

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Facebook Probes Account Selling on the Forum

April 30th, 2010

According to Australian ABC News, Facebook is now examining its accounts of users whose passwords have been hacked by a Russian hacker. The hacker who called himself Kirllos claimed to have the account details amounted to 1.5 million Facebook users. What’s more, the hacker is offering to sell the login details of accounts hacked by [...]...

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Facebook Blocked Checking-My-Profile Scam

March 18th, 2010

I hate when someone is looking/checking my profile and I don’t even know about this!!! But this time, you’re not alone. Likewise, Facebook also hate it, and hence they blocked the applications that offered users a unique feature to see who is viewing their profiles. Simply not because of the emotional feelings of hate, it [...]...

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The App Notification Changes on Facebook

March 8th, 2010

Starting from March 1st this year, Facebook will no longer deliver application notifications and will discontinue support for notifications.send, according to its official Facebook developers blog. In other words, Facebook is set to become a much quiet place, despite the fact that they have more than 400 million users up to-date. Clearly, the loss ...

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Facebook offers New Privacy Settings for Facebook Apps

February 19th, 2010

According to Facebook’s official blog, Facebook has rolled out a wider variety of access levels to the users as they publish any new story to their Walls. Different types of privacy settings has thus be available for the users when they want to post new story or content via the third-party Facebook apps. For instance, [...]...

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