Facebook for iPhone Update Brings New Places Feature
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg may have infamously given up his iPhone recently for an Android handset, but that doesn’t mean that his company has abandoned Apple’s iOS. Following a press conference Wednesday to introduce the new location-based Places feature, an iPhone app update hit which adds the feature. Facebook has now added the ability for [...]
Facebook Instant Personalization Has a Security Hole, No One Shocked
There are a lot of reasons to distrust Facebook’s Instant Personalization service, but the list grew by one more today. The issue is an exploit that takes advantage of Yelp’s participation in the Instant Personalization feature of Facebook. The attack allows a shady character to get access to all a user’s Facebook data if they [...]
Facebook Security Hole Allowed Access to Others’ Live Chats
Maybe with all the constant redesigns and swapping of features, the occasional bug is to be expected. But a bug uncovered by TechCrunch Europe today turned out to be a gaping security hole. The bug allowed users to view the live chat logs of any of their friends on the site. The trick relied on [...]
Is Facebook Joining the HTML5 Revolution? Not Yet
It doesn’t matter whether you blame Apple or Adobe for the lack of Flash support on the iPad and other iPhone OS devices, the end result is that consumers ultimately pay the price. It’s unfortunate, but Facebook wasn’t about to let the Apple/Adobe tiff put a damper on the social networking experience, no matter which [...]
Facebook Gets a Talking to from Four US Senators
Four US Senators have apparently just been told about Facebook by their aides, and they didn’t much care for the privacy policy. The Senators sent a letter to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg asking him to simplify the process of adjusting privacy settings. The signatories to the letter were Charles Schumer of New York, Mark Begich [...]
Hacker Offers Up 1.5 Million Stolen Facebook IDs for Sale
Have you changed your Facebook password lately? If not, perhaps you should, just to play it on the safe side. According to researchers at VeriSign’s iDefense group, a hacker by the name of Kirllos is selling Facebook usernames and passwords, and it appears he has 1.5 million accounts up for grabs. It isn’t yet clear [...]
Facebook Kills Lite Version of Site
When Facebook launched Facebook Lite back in September it was a breath of fresh air. For many, the design of the regular site is confusing and cluttered. The Lite edition was great if you just wanted to pop in and checkout what your friends were up to. But all good things must end, and in [...]
Study: Facebook Users Go Online Three Times as Often
According to research conducted by Nielsen, Australians with Facebook accounts are online a little over three times as long as non-Facebook users, which Nielsen says is indicative of how different types of users view the Internet. “Facebook users are spending a lot more time using video, a lot more time on entertainment sites, and so [...]
16-year-old to Sue Mother for Hacking Facebook Account
If you dealt with a snooping parent in your early years, you probably never thought of filing a harassment suit. But that’s just what one 16 year old Arkansas teen is doing after his mother reportedly broke into his Facebook account. The mother, Denise New from Arkadelphia (sort of like Philadelphia, but in Arkansas?) is [...]
6 Steps to Protect Your Facebook Privacy
Whether you’re a committed telephone addict, a tabloid aficionado, or a web surfer extraordinaire, we’re sure you can’t help but notice that every couple of days seems to bring another security scare. Scare stories make for good headlines, of course, but some affect you more than others. Such is the case with privacy – something [...]
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