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Facebook appears to be infected with a porn-based malware that has affected about 110,000 Facebook users in just two days. The malware, disguised as a Flash update, comes as a link to a porn video on one of your friend’s post. Clicking on it takes you to a website that may or may not be […]
The Facebook outage yesterday, which lasted for about one hour, was an internal technical glitch, said Facebook in a statement on its website. “This was not the result of a third party attack but instead occurred after we introduced a change that affected our configuration systems,” said the statement. Facebook and its photo site Instagram […]
Users hoping to see saucy “leaked” footages and pictures of celebs may fall prey to identity fraud- Warns Security Firm BitDefender Facebook users are in for a surprise if only they click on links promising never-seen-before nude pictures of celebrities from popular messaging app SnapChat. Renowned security firm BitDefender claims that this latest breed of […]
Social networking has become a major part of lives these days. ‘Being online’ is what that is trending! We spend more time online than with our family. Does that mean a lifeless machine made up of lifeless materials knows about our personality better than ones who brought us up? Well, stats answer it as a […]
Facebook has grown at a very fast pace and today it has left all social networking sites behind. Video and photo sharing are one of the most important features of Facebook. Downloading images from a Facebook page can be tiresome. So, one day I was searching some way to download multiple photos from Facebook i.e. downloading […]
JUDGE SLAPS FACEBOOK WITH PRIVACY VIOLATION RULING. U.S District Judge Phyllis Hamilton ruled thatFacebook must “face the consequences” of violating its users’ privacy by actually scanning the messages they have been sending to other users as a form of advertising. The US judge from Oakland, California deniedFacebook the right to dismiss the lawsuit but […]
A pro-Palestinian hacker going with the handle of ‘AlFeRoX’ hacked and defaced the sub-domain of United Kingdom’s Department of Education in support of a free Palestine. The targeted domain belongs to the social media page of the department of Education (facebook.education.gov.uk) that was left with a deface page along with a message againstIsrael and the USA. The deface […]
Today, I was talking to some friends about the Candy Crush notifications and I found out that everyone is sick of the frequent notifications people send on Facebook. Candy Crush Saga is one of the top games available on Facebook, Android and iPhone. The users of the game are infamous for asking help from Facebook […]
Big news from Facebook, if you are a Tor user! Facebook has developed a link that will allow Tor users to browse freely on the site. The link is generated to discriminate Tor users from botnets which the Facebook server detects once a person is browsing through an anonymous browser. Kindly, login via following link […]
Yesterday my friend reminded me that September 30th is Orkut‘s last day. It took me back in time when I stopped using Orkut and jumped upon the Facebook bandwagon. Orkut introduced me to social networking. So remembering that time and embarrassing but funny things we did on Orkut, I’ve compiled this list of some funny […]
Privacy concerns over the Facebook Chat App is at an all time high. Increasingly more and more people are voicing their concern and even their anger at the permissions needed from the user in order to use the App. Although the App was released some time ago, it wasn’t until Facebook took away end user […]
As we all know Facebook was down yesterday for unknown reason, but how the users took it is a totally different story. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department received numerous calls from Facebook users asking them to help regain contact with Facebook. The non-stop calls forced LASD to post tweets in order to explain that police has nothing […]
A couple of weeks ago, the social media giant Facebook announced that in order to serve us with targeted ads – it will starting using our data that it collects from apps. It actually means that Facebook will now use your browsing history to earn money and benefit its advertisers. Today, we are going to help you with how […]
Facebook phishing. Phishing is a way of attempting to acquire information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Communications purporting to be from popular social web sites, auction sites, online payment processors or IT administrators are commonly used to lure the unsuspecting public. Phishing […]
While surfing Facebook, you must have seen a blue badge indicating verified pages and profiles of famous people such as celebrities, journalists and politicians etc, but looking at verified pages of Anonymous hacktivists was something totally unexpected. Yes! there are two pages on Facebook belonging to the Anonymous hacktivists with verified page status and millions of likes. We saw […]
In an exclusive report, we are updating that the official verified Facebook fan page of famous rock band Linkin Park (LP) with 62,616,278 fans (https://www.facebook.com/linkinPark?fref=nf) has been hacked by unknown hackers and spamming vulgar images with links. It seems as if the page was hacked a couple of hours ago where hacker started posting links […]
An Israeli soldier has received massive online support after being suspended for aiming gun at a Palestinian teenager, reported by AFP. A YouTube video shows an Israeli solider and Palestinian youth auguring with each other when the elite Nahal infantry unit soldier identified only as David aimed the gun at the teenager. Just few hours […]
The Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Wednesday that company is introducing an anonymous login feature, which allows users to access applications for smartphones and tablets without sharing their personal information stored in social network. The announcement was made during F8 developer conference according to which Anonymous Login is a sign in mechanism to log into apps without […]
WhatsApp, one of the most popular instant messaging services, scaled its highest point recently when it handled more than 64 billion messages in 24 hour period in a day, just weeks after its acquisition by Facebook for a whopping USD 19 billion, according to media reports. Last year, the daily message traffic of the application […]
Cyber criminals have targeted millions of Facebook users through a sophisticated Android Trojan app that can bypass the two-factor authentication shield used by Facebook mobile users, says a Slovakian security firm. ESET, an IT security firm, has identified a new variant of the banking Trojan ‘Qadars,’ which injects rogue JavaScript code into Facebook pages when […]
A new feature introduced by Facebook to allow meeting the Facebook friends in real time when they are actually close by has had mixed reactions from its users. Nearby Friends, an optional mobile application, taps steady stream of location information and makes it possible for friends to track each other in real time and meet […]