Facebook on Thursday has released a security guide aimed at young adults, parents and educators to educate them about security concepts on the social networking site. The 14 pages of the pdf document are packed with information that range from general account protection information to using Facebook’s advanced security settings or recovering a hacked Facebook [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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How To Properly Protect Your Facebook Account, Login
Facebook has been rolling out new or improved security and privacy features in rapid succession for the past year. Many of the changes have only been announced on the official blog and third party sites like Ghacks that report about them. Facebook users who do not read the official blog or third party sites like [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Facebook Login Approvals, Optional Two-Factor Authentication
Facebook about a month ago began to roll out a two-factor authentication system designed to protect user accounts from unauthorized access. Two-Factor authentication is designed to add a second form of authentication to the login process, usually in form of a code that is send to the user. PayPal for instance is offering VeriSign ID [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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The Ugly Side Of The Cloud, Facebook Access Vulnerability Uncovered
Security has been one of the top topics of the last 30 days. We have had the Last Pass incident and the Sony PSN hack. Both incidents demonstrated that your data may be at risk, even if you play by the book and use the best security practices available. If you thought that’s all for [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Facebook Adds (Optional) Two-Factor Authentication
Two-Factor Authentication seems to be the next big thing to protect accounts from unauthorized access. Google recently enabled the feature for Google Accounts and now it is Facebook’s turn to introduce a similar feature for all Facebook users. Two-Factor Authentication is being rolled out at the moment which means that the new feature is not [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Facebook Improves Security With Secure Browsing, Social Authentication
Facebook today announced two changes to the popular social networking site that aim to improve the security of site visitors. Secure Browsing is a new opt-in option to configure Facebook to always use https connections. While Facebook is already making use of a secure connection when the user logs into the network, it is not [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Facebook Apps Now Able To Grab Mobile Phone Number, Address
Facebook and privacy, the saga will never end it seems. A recent blog posting over at Facebook by Jeff Bowen outlines some of the platform updates for developers. The announcement is technical and most users have probably skipped it altogether, if they did find it in the first place that is. Probably the most important [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Facebook Displaying Name New Computer On Every Log In
I’m not a regular on Facebook, especially since I switched to the latest nightly releases of Firefox 4 which appear to have a problem with Facebook and the NoScript add-on. Lots of browser crashes are the consequence at the moment. Whenever I log into Facebook I get the Name New Computer screen. Every single time [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Facebook Improves Security, One-Time Login, Remote Logout
So called one-time logins, single-use codes or temporary passwords seem to be one of the latest trends in web site security. Hotmail has been offering their single-use codes for some time now, allowing users to request a one-time password on the Hotmail login page that they receive on their mobile phone linked to the account. [...]