If you have any private photos on Facebook that you really don’t want out there, consider this story your fair warning to delete them. A flaw in the social networking site’s reporting mechanism allows users to peer into content that is otherwise marked "private". Now would be a good time to remove that pic of drunken you mooning the boss.

Facebook flaw briefly exposes private photos, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s

Posted: December 6th, 2011 under Facebook, Internet, Privacy, Security.
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Facebook is the second most popular site in the world according to Alexa’s traffic rankings. The social network had explosive growth from 2008 with 100 million users to 750 million users today. This equates to about 11 percent of the world’s population or 36 percent of global Internet users; Facebook became the largest social network worldwide. The social network’s popularity and its fast growth make it a prime target for cybercriminals.

How do survey scammers ‘clipjack’ Facebook users?

Posted: October 11th, 2011 under Facebook, Internet, Security.
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The Huffington Post just came out with a list of things not to post on Facebook. The list includes: your birth date and place of birth, trips away from home, your phone number, or less obviously– your child’s name.

You can always play in the safe zone with Facebook’s “Friends Only” feature but how many people have you added as a friend that you don’t exactly know? I’ve been friends with a mysterious Syrian named Simo for years now.

What Not to Share on Facebook | Hubze Blog

Posted: September 9th, 2011 under Facebook, Internet, Privacy, Security.
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Facebook is making a sweeping set of changes to its privacy and sharing policies that will give users much more control over the information they share and who they share it with.

Facebook Rolls Out Major, Sweeping Privacy Changes

Posted: August 23rd, 2011 under Facebook, Privacy.
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How To Improve Security While Using Facebook and Encrypt Traffic with SSL HTTPS

 

Facebook is everywhere theses days.  Anymore, you’re the exception if you don’t have a Facebook account.  Although this is good news is you can now easily connect with old/new friends while at the same time start a new farm, as with all things, there is a dark side to Facebook’s popularity.  When the popularity of something grows, so does the attack surface.  In other words, hackers write virus / malware for Windows PC’s because it’s the primary OS in the world and therefore the largest target.  They will get the most bang for their buck so-to-speak vs. writing a virus for say Amiga systems.  Well the same thing is true for Facebook.  Write some malware that targets 500 Million + Facebook users and the payoff could be huge.

How to make sure you always have a secure Facebook session (use https)

Posted: May 19th, 2011 under Facebook, Internet, Security.
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Facebook is the first company to use a tool from Microsoft that identifies known images of child pornography and remove them from the social network.

The tool, called PhotoDNA, is software that analyzes images for certain characteristics and compares them to images in a reference database. Microsoft calls this process “robust hashing,” and an illicit image’s “hash value” can help authorities track and identify copies – altered or not – of child porn photos. (See video below.)

Facebook deploys Microsoft tool to fight child pornography | The Microsoft Blog – seattlepi.com

Posted: May 19th, 2011 under Facebook, Internet, Security.
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By Ben Popken on May 13, 2011 2:00 PM0 views

To help combat clickjacking, Facebook is adding a new feature that will spot scam-like behavior by pages on its site and ask you to confirm your "like" before automatically adding a story to your profile and your friends’ News Feeds." So how do you as a user fight clickjacking on Facebook? It’s a really easy one-step process. When you see a post that says "to watch this kkkkrazy video, just copy and paste this URL into your browser," — don’t do it.

How To Fight Clickjacking On Facebook – The Consumerist

Posted: May 19th, 2011 under Facebook, Internet, Security.
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May 12, 2011 | Tim Ollason

Something that has been pretty big news in the world of social media and especially social networking is the sheer number of spam and scams that are hitting the Facebook. The people behind the spamming and scamming are generally trying to get some commission by making you click on something.

Facebook Security Update: Keeping You Safe From Scams and Spam : Online Social Media

Posted: May 17th, 2011 under Facebook, Internet, Security.
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