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How Much is Your Facebook Account Worth to Hackers?

By Hazel Chua | July 28, 2012 @ 7:00 am

Most of us have the idea that our data must be worth substantial amounts of money to Facebook and whoever happens to wrangle it from us. We've got the inventor of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, telling us to demand for our data, for crying out loud. Surely, it must be worth something.

In fact, it really is worth something--just not very much. Dancho Danchev from Webroot recently stumbled upon a couple of Russian websites that were selling compromised social networking accounts by the hundreds. Read More » »

Remove Timeline Scam Targets Unhappy Facebook Users

By Kate Gatto | May 31, 2012 @ 2:06 am

Do you hate the Time Line view on your Facebook account. If you do then you are not by any means alone. May end users have the double column view of time line and the back-and-forth postings. Some surveys have show that more than 80 percent of workers, some estimates say up to 86% of end users have serious privacy or aesthetic concerns about the newest format that Facebook has forced upon its end users.

Watch Out! Zombie Blondes Storm Facebook with Fake Profiles

By Hazel Chua | May 28, 2012 @ 1:45 pm

You might have noticed a sudden influx of strikingly gorgeous blonde users on Facebook. Some of your friends might have two or three of these bombshells in their friends list, and you might have a few pending requests from some of them yourself.

But before you accept their friend requests or try to hit them up for their phone number, be warned: they're not real. Several outlets have reported that these are, in fact, zombie profiles created by scammers and cyber criminals with the intention of stealing your personal information, hijacking your account, and infecting your computer with malware or viruses.

Is Facebook Making A Smart Phone?

By Kate Gatto | May 28, 2012 @ 1:38 am

If you are in the market for a new smart phone right now then you may want to wait a while. At least long enough to see if the rumors are true and Facebook really is putting out a phone of its very own. Nick Bilton, a reporter over at The New York Times, published a piece citing unnamed sources that are discussing the intentions of the newly IPOed company to move into mobile hardware.

Apparently it is all coming down to who the company is hiring. According to the article the company is bringing on mobile hardware engineers in a big way, ones with very specific skills, "The company has already hired more than half a dozen former Apple software and hardware engineers who worked on the iPhone, and one who worked on the iPad, the employees and those briefed on the plans said." So who knows the phone may be quite similar to the iPhone. For now the project is being called Buffy.

The only real question is what can a Facebook phone offer to the end users who would buy it that an iPhone, an Android phone, a Windows phone or even a Blackberry can't already give them? After all Facebooks only offering is already free on all of the major platforms and given the way the company makes its money, ad, won't be something most of us want on our phones.

If all goes according to plan the company is hoping to get its new phone offering out into the market place by sometime in 2013. At the current moment there is no word on carriers, or whether or not they will try to pull an iPhone and only list on one carrier for the launch, though it is unlikely to be a competitive market strategy. After all any new phone that enters the market has a mountain of competitors to climb over in order to get into your pocket.

Article by Katie Gatto

Don’t Be Fooled: Facebook Cancellation Option is Fake, Installs Malware Instead

By Hazel Chua | May 24, 2012 @ 11:55 am

A lot of people love Facebook, while many more just can't wait to leave the social network. Unfortunately, there's no way for you to delete every bit of your personal information on the site because Facebook doesn't allow users to delete or cancel accounts. All users can do instead is deactivate their accounts.

On a related note, a new scam that is possibly linked to the Mal/SpyEye-B malware has just surfaced that takes advantage of some users' desires to call it quits--permanently--with Facebook.

Katy Perry Sings Ode to Facebook to Promote Her New 3D Movie (VIDEO)

By Hazel Chua | May 23, 2012 @ 1:04 am

Katy Perry Loves Facebook!

The day when singers and so-called music artists have run out of things to croon about has finally come. Katy Perry is done singing about aliens, teenage dreams, and last Friday night, because everyone's favorite cocktease is now singing about Facebook!

Katy dropped her new single, Wide Awake, at the Billboard Music Awards last Sunday. She subsequently released a lyric video for the song, which you can watch in rapture above, that highlights her own career set to Facebook's Timeline profile.

Oh No She Didn’t: Principal Spies on Students on Facebook, Resigns (VIDEO)

By Hazel Chua | May 18, 2012 @ 11:27 pm

Think Before You Spy..

Social media has always been an issue, not just in the workplace where employers are demanding for their employees' passwords, but also in the academe. Specifically, in Clayton High School located at St. Louis, where its principal has come under fire for purportedly posting as a student on Facebook.

Soon-to-be ex-principal Louise Losos was recently accused by a recent Clayton graduate for creating a fake Facebook profile under the name of "Suzy Harriston" and adding hundreds of students from the school so that she could monitor their activities.