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...

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 [...]...

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, [...]...

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...

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...

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...