Tag Archives: Facebook
Facebook Password Changed Email Comes with Malware
There’s an email purporting to be from Facebook, claims that the users password was changed due to security reasons. This attack was originally reported by the security firm Sophos. The email messages come in a variety of subject lines including “Facebook Service”, “Facebook Support”, “Your password has been changed”, and “Your account is blocked.” The [...]
Full StoryFacebook Missing 370 Million Users
Facebook bolsters that they have over 500 million users, but how many are active and how many of those accounts are duplicates or spam accounts? This is not the same as when McDonald’s use to publicly display that they served over 250 million. I am sure many of those were repeat customers and not unique [...]
Full StoryFacebook Users Outraged or Just Stuck?
On Thursday, Facebook experienced an outage for 2 ½ hours due to a glitch in the social media network’s database software. There were messages flying around the social network that the site was compromised by a group of hackers. The site was not hacked in anyway shape or form. Facebook users were outraged yesterday because [...]
Full StoryFacebook Suing Over the Use of Book in a Domain Name
This is absolutely ludicrous! Facebook doesn’t want anyone to register a domain name that uses ‘generic plus book’. There are many domains that have generic plus book such as; Macbook.com SEObook.com (Excellent resource for SEO) lookatbook.com eBook.com Techbook.com (Parked domain) Teachbook (Currently being sued) iownbook.com (Newly registered) According to Facebook: “If others could freely use [...]
Full StoryJustin Bieber Free Concert Ticket Scam
There’s a Facebook scam that’s getting very viral which claims to offer free tickets to a Justin Bieber concert. The scam is targeting teenagers to sign up to expensive premium rate mobile phone service. The message appearing on Facebook reads: “WOW! Justin Bieber Is Giving Away Free Concert Tickets Now!” This scam targets teens who [...]
Full StoryFarmVille Cheats come with Viruses
FarmVille is a very popular and addicting game on Facebook. There are many players who are looking to get an edge by searching for FarmVille Cheats on Google and other search engines. The problem with searching for Farmville cheats is what you may get in return. There are sites that are capitalizing on the popular [...]
Full StorySexy Facebook Beach Babes come with Malware
There’s a rogue application on Facebook that is posting links on Facebook Walls that supposedly open a video showing “Distracting Beach Babes“. In fact, clicking the bogus “video” links can install the rogue app, send copies of the Malware messages to the Wall’s of the Facebook user’s friends and download Malware to the user’s computer. [...]
Full StoryFacebook Users Be Careful Clicking Links On Your Wall
Once again the devious Koobface botnet has created a new component that automates the following routines on Facebook: Registering a Facebook account Confirming Email address to activate the registered Facebook account Joining random Facebook groups Adding Facebook friends Posting message to Facebook friends’ wall About Koobface Koobface is a revolutionary malware, being the first to [...]
Full StoryMalware Authors Target Social Networks
When you have millions of users, 175 million to be exact, it makes for an easy target for Malware authors and Hackers to invest time and energy. Facebook has been under fire lately with the well known Koobface worm. The Koobface worm finds the social-networking cookies, it makes a DNS query to check IP addresses [...]
Full Story5 Ways to Boost Web Traffic
We all love traffic like we love parties. Seeing people come to your site gives you a sense of confidence that people are interested in your content. It’s a great boost to anyone’s ego when the traffic comes in droves. I have been a web developer and web surfer since 1993, and I love web [...]
Full StoryFacebook Flip Flops on Terms
Facebook backed away from a newly implemented terms of service that many considered a privacy violation. Last night Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said the company would revert back to its previous version of its terms of service that “everybody can understand.” Zuckerberg explained in a blog post: “Over the past few days, we have [...]
Full StoryFacebook Reaches Another Milestone
A little more than a month after announcing it had 150 million active users, Facebook has reached 175 million active users–the statistic the social-networking site prefers to use, rather than registered accounts overall. Dave Morin, who runs Facebook’s application platform team, announced the milestone Friday evening on his Twitter/FriendFeed. Facebook reached 150 million just more [...]
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