A poll of 1,649 internet users from the United States and U.K. found that 64.2% of women rejected friend requests from strangers, while only 55.4% of men did, with men more likely to accept a request if it came from a “hot-looking woman.” View full post on social media scam…
FTC, Facebook reportedly settling 2009 privacy complaint
Facebook agrees to opt-in practice for major privacy changes, as well as 20 years of privacy audits, according to The Wall Street Journal. View full post on facebook hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Man ‘sextorted’ boys using Facebook, cops say
A New Zealand man has been arrested for creating a Facebook profile of a young woman and using it to lure underage boys to send him explicit photos and video of themselves. Police allege that Cameron Stuart Hore, 27, posed on Facebook as a female teenager named Sarah Ruddenklau —…
Facebook Adds Security Tools to Protect User Accounts From Hacker Takeovers
Facebook is testing out two new security features to help users protect their accounts from being compromised by malicious third-party apps or hackers. View full post on facebook hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Facebook for the Famous [Facebook]
# facebook When Paul Feig, the director of Bridesmaids, was invited to join WhoSay.com, a relatively new social network that describes itself as the source for “Photos and videos directly from Celebrities and Influencers,” he was sure he was somehow being set up. More » View full post on social media…
Zuckerberg dubs Google ‘little version of Facebook’
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg dubbed the Google social networking site Google+ as “their own little version of Facebook”. That’s what he declared in an interview yesterday evening ona US PBS network radio show. When asked him if Facebook planned to engage in a “flat out” platform war with Google, Apple…
Anonymous says Facebook attack was never real
Online activists say attacking a tool they use is not part of their plan and they point to lone rogue Anon. View full post on germany cyber attack – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
German authorities accuse Facebook of tracking deleted users
A German data protection authority contends Facebook is tracking users even after they delete their accounts, and it wants the company to respond to this potential privacy violation by Monday. Hamburg’s Data Protection Authority has published a report about how Facebook uses cookies, or small pieces of data stored in…
Hackers harvest Facebook private data with social bots
Facebook’s fake account detection mechanisms can be defeated 80 percent of the time with the help of automated tools, researchers from the University of British Columbia have found after an eight week test. The research team, composed of Yazan Boshmaf, Ildar Muslukhov, Konstantin Beznosov and Matei Ripeanu, created a network…
Twitter and Facebook monitored for threats by US security services
When the US Department of Homeland Security receives information about potential threats to the US, agents may turn to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Caryn Wagner, undersecretary of the Department of Homeland Security, told an audience Monday at the National Symposium on Homeland Security and Defense in Colorado…