Social-Networking

Sophos report: Social networking security threats

January 19, 2011

Graham Cluley Sophos has today published its annual Security Threat Report, looking back at the last twelve months and ahead to the threats we can expect to encounter during 2011. Inside you’ll find a wide variety of threats discussed including: * Social networking threats * Fake anti-virus * Stuxnet * SEO poisoning * Data loss [...]

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User address and mobile phone number accessible to Facebook app developers

January 16, 2011

Facebook application developers, including third party developers, are now able to access your home address and mobile phone number on Facebook if users “allow” the application to access their personal information. Check your settings. User Address and Mobile Phone Number We are now making a user’s address and mobile phone number accessible as part of [...]

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Christmas Tree application virus hoax spreads on Facebook

November 24, 2010

Graham Cluley-Sophos. Thousands of Facebook users are warning each other about a Christmas Tree virus said to be spreading in the form of a rogue application on the social network. The only problem with this warning? It’s utterly bogus. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2010/11/22/christmas-tree-app-virus-hoax-spreads-on-facebook/

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Researchers take down Koobface servers

November 14, 2010

ComputerWorld reports that security researchers, working with law enforcement and Internet service providers, have disrupted the Koobface botnet. Late Friday afternoon, Pacific Time, the computer identified as the command-and-control server used to send instructions to infected Koobface machines was offline. According to Nart Villeneuve the chief research officer with SecDev Group, the server was one [...]

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Twitter moves to OAuth

September 1, 2010

Twitter Blog If you are like most Twitter users, you have used use a third-party Twitter application to read or send Tweets. As of August 31, Twitter applications will all use OAuth, an authentication method that lets you use apps without them storing your password. What does this mean for me? The move to OAuth [...]

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Fake TweetDeck Update On Twitter TDSS Malware

August 31, 2010

TweetDeck Support We are seeing a number of updates on Twitter urging users to download a file called “tweetdeck-08302010-update.exe” from a URL beginning with http://alturl.com/. These tweets are from hacked accounts and this file does not come from us. Do not download it. Official updates are exclusively available at: http://www.tweetdeck.com/desktop/ To ensure your safety TweetDeck [...]

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Facebook CEO-Making Control Simple

May 26, 2010

Facebook Blog The number one thing we’ve heard is that there just needs to be a simpler way to control your information. We’ve always offered a lot of controls, but if you find them too hard to use then you won’t feel like you have control. Unless you feel in control, then you won’t be [...]

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Facebook Founder Promises Privacy Fixes

May 25, 2010

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO, wrote an opinion piece in the Washington Post yesterday. We have heard the feedback. There needs to be a simpler way to control your information. In the coming weeks, we will add privacy controls that are much simpler to use. We will also give you an easy way to [...]

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Consumer groups file new FTC complaint against Facebook citing privacy violations

May 7, 2010

Wednesday May 5th, fourteen privacy and consumer protection groups joined the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in filing a 38-page complaint against Facebook with the Federal Trade Commission. The Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, the Center for Digital Democracy, the Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights, the Center for [...]

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Facebook security flaw enabled users to view friends live chats

May 5, 2010

Steve O’Hear at TechCrunch received a tip about a major security flaw on Facebook which enabled any user to view the live chats of their ‘friends’ and access their friends’ latest pending friend-requests. The irony is that the exploit is enabled by they way that Facebook lets you preview your own privacy settings. In other [...]

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