I previously wrote an article entitled: Feel Lonely? Want to Buy New Friends on Facebook?, and clearly, now Facebook want to put an end to the sale of friends’ activities by sending Cease and Desist letters to uSocial, an Australia-based company for the selling of Facebook friends and fans for money. According to BBC, “Facebook [...]...

It looks like quite a number of Facebook groups have been hijacked by a hacker with hijinks in mind? No, the Facebook groups that have been hijacked was under the name of security purpose, with an intention to highlight the apparent flaw in the Facebook group itself. Searching for “Control Your Info,” users will find [...]...

Koobface variant is resurfaced again. This time this virus is not only back but with added sophisticated and behaves like an usual Facebook user. According to TrendMicro, it automates the following routines: Firstly register a Facebook account, and confirm an email address in GMail in order to activate the registered Facebook account. Unlike previo...

Phishing campaigns on social networks are not new. The scammers are not satisfied only for pushing spam to sell “Canadian” pills. Now they are using all sorts of phishing campaigns to steal your Facebook password, and constantly change their tactics such as trick the users to download a keylogger so that they can collect your [...]...

Scammers never give up, although various sorts of phishing scams have been blocked by Facebook. It seemed that the more serious one appears to be the fake email with the malicious “updatetool.exe attachment”, as reported by Webroot, an established security experts on the Web. This fake email is pretends to be from the Facebook administr...

In an ongoing battle against spam or any abuse, Facebook has included a “Report” feature for the profile, page or group which users are allowed to file an abuse report. When clicked, this particular abuse reporting will immediately be submitted to the Facebook user operation team members and the aforesaid action will be filed for [...]...

Back in November last year, Facebook has been awarded a whopping $873 million against the spammers that sending the sleazy messages to their users. However, it seemed the battle against the spammers is not over yet as Facebook has been awarded another high-profile $711 million in damages by San Jose, California court against Sanford Wallace, [...]...

From a security threat standpoint, Facebook users do not take the appropriate steps to fend off various security challenges can cause their computers vulnerable to all sort of problems. In tandem of the declaration of “National Cybersecurity Awareness Month” by The White House, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), which is a partn...

While a lot of users joining Facebook are for friend connections, there’s always been a focus on the most important activity on Facebook: To build a larger friend base. Of course, building the friend base in Facebook is not only important for ego, it’s also a business strategy, as noted on uSocial, an Australian-based marketing [...]...

Most Facebook users don’t really care about the potential risks of Facebook quizzes that can collect and store the answers they give when they’re taking the quizzes; they also cannot stop these kinds of quizzes from collecting the information in their profiles – and even information from their friends’ profiles. In order to prov...