A new worm spreading on Facebook is aiming to infect users with the data-stealing trojan Zeus, security researchers have warned.
The worm uses stolen Facebook account details to log in to users' accounts and spam their contacts, according to researchers at Danish security firm CSIS, which first identified the threat.
A German online reputation and privacy management company, secure.me, set its sights on a global market today, announcing it will be launching in ten different languages. The company markets towards parents who want to monitor the online shenanigans of their children, as well as those who fear the social networking site they use could become an Achilles’ heel for their professional repute.
A Brazilian security researcher set up an experiment to prove that he can get anyone to accept a Facebook friend request in a matter of hours, showing how privacy is still a major issue when it comes to social networking website.
According to Psyzone, Nelson Novaes, a researcher in the field of online security and behavior, made a proof of concept to demonstrate how easily people can be manipulated on social networks and Facebook in particular.
After angering users with one privacy misstep after another, Facebook yesterday settled charges by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that it had deceived users and shared information it had told them would be private.
Now users and industry analysts are waiting to see if Facebook will correct its course on privacy matters or continue on with nothing more than a slight mark from its slap on the wrist.
Still in rough development, a new extension for Google Chrome puts in your hands a useful power tool for separating your data from Facebook apps of dubious origin. Called OOptOut (download), the add-on by Chad Selph helpfully lists above the Facebook header for you any permissions that a newly-installed Facebook app requests.
A new Facebook phishing scheme is about as nasty as they come: The perpetrators threaten to delete users' Facebook accounts unless they hand over various account details within 24 hours.
While some of you might welcome such a deletion, most of us would not. Sophos Security is warning about the scheme, which was shared on Hoax-Slayer.
A Starbucks-themed scam has been spotted targeting users of both Facebook and Twitter users and it does so not via messages sent from compromised accounts, but through spam emails.
The emails tout Starbucks cards for free coffee and provide a link. When the victim follows it, he is faced with the following page (or the "Facebook" equivalent - "Share" instead of "Tweet"):
Facebook said it has identified many of those responsible for a wave of pornographic content that showed up on users' news feeds this week.
Facebook has denied any hacking of its accounts in India. Responding to media reports and complaints from some of its users over alleged tampering of profile pictures, the social networking firm has asserted that the reports were inaccurate.
"This is not true. Users photos are not being transferred to an unwanted site and no accounts have been compromised," a Facebook executive said.
Facebook has reduced the amount of personal data it releases to users as required by European Union law despite an ongoing audit by Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner.
The agency is auditing Facebook to see if it complies with the country's Data Protection Acts of 1988 and 2003, which transpose the E.U.'s Data Protection Directive, known as 95/46/EC. The laws allow people to request to see their personal data held by a company.
