Facebook does not seem to come to rest these days with the increasing awareness that privacy is not handled the way it should be on the popular social networking site. The problems boil down to the large number of privacy related settings and the ever changing nature of the network which intentionally or unintentionally makes [...]

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Facebook’s popularity makes it a prime target for hackers, phishers and other malicious users who try to steal your login information, invade your privacy or do other malicious things with your account. Many Facebook users do not know that Facebook has an option to notify account owners about logins from other computer systems and mobile [...]

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Facebook feels like privacy hell. Not a single week goes by without reports of new privacy problems on the popular social networking site. The latest was published on Techcrunch Europe just yesterday. It apparently allowed anyone to view their friend’s live chats and take a look at their friend requests and friends. It is ironic [...]

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Facebook privacy has been in the news lately with many users thinking that the privacy settings on the site are to darn complicated and hidden to be effective. As a result information are publicly available which some users might have no intention to share with the world. Facebook itself is not really helpful when it [...]

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Norton Safe Web is an url scanning service offered by Norton. It scans websites and urls and displays possible threats found on those websites to users of the service. It is in this regard similar to other url scanning services like AVG Linkscanner or Web of Trust. Norton Safe Web For Facebook is a Facebook [...]

Categories: Facebook, Security

About a week ago Facebook’s own Mark Zuckerberg posted an open letter to the community announcing some long awaited privacy changes to the popular social networking website. What most users would not have expected at that time was how controversial these new privacy settings would be. What Mark announced was better privacy for Facebook users. [...]

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Have you ever asked yourself which information are accessible to quizzes and applications if you allow them to access your account before taking the quiz to find out if you really know everything about becoming a vampire or which superhero your cat resembles most. Most Facebook users might think that those quizzes receive barely any [...]

Categories: Facebook, Security, The Web

Offering a popular website or web service is not always a blessing. This especially becomes apparent when you have to deal with security related issues like phishing attacks. Facebook is without doubt one of the most popular sites on the Internet these days and it therefor comes unsurprisingly that the service is regularly attacked. Trend [...]

Categories: Facebook, Security, The Web