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Marie* was expecting a typical day when she arrived at her advertising job one January day [...]
Hackers and spammers have been using relatively similar tactics over the past few months to compromise Facebook user accounts. The most recent scam spreading on Facebook involves the use of hijacked user accounts for sending out chat messages with links to the standard Facebook phishing page. When the user clicks the link, they [...]
Facebook smilie number 1 – The big smile Nothing says you’re happy like the big smile emoticon for Facebook. It’s a timeless classic, which lets the user know that inside you are so happy and enjoying life. This is the most important feeling you can have! Facebook emotion number 2 – The devil symbol Every coin, of course, [...]
This evening Mark Zuckerberg posted about the company surpassing the 350 million user threshold, less than one month after we reported on the company crossing the 325 million mark. It’s a substantial milestone for the company and at this rate there’s a chance that they could easily surpass 375 million by the end of [...]
This evening Mark Zuckerberg posted about the company surpassing the 350 million user threshold, less than one month after we reported on the company crossing the 325 million mark. It’s a substantial milestone for the company and at this rate there’s a chance that they could easily surpass 375 million by the end of [...]
Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network has discovered that the KoobFace malware campaign is now using a Christmas theme. This is not the first time the Koobface worm has infected social newtork sites. The Koobface website offors a video posted by ‘SantA’ with the usual ruse of requiring a codec to watch the video is used to [...]
While many developers believe that opening up access to user emails may corrupt the Facebook Platform ecosystem, the company appears to be moving forward with the transition. Dan Peguine of HonestyBox forwarded us a screenshot last week of a prompt which asks the user to offer their email to the application developer (pictured below). [...]
In spite of the big Facebook popularity, most of the pages created by persons or companies are not provided with the quantity of fans or followers who wait, at least this way it is revealed by a study realized by the company of analysis specializing in social networks Sysomos, analyzing [...]
In Hong Kong, a young man created a group of support to the called Suicido “have to practise fake the suicide” (”I Have to practise the suicide”), that managed to assemble 190 members under the proposal to commit a suicide in mass next December 21, in fact, one of his [...]
Want a really great Facebook spam technique? This morning a Facebook user added me as a friend and then tagged me in a post without me approving their friendship request. The post was then displayed on my wall from a Facebook Page that user was administering. I’ve heard of similar issues in [...]