New Facebook policy raises alarms over sharing of user data. Facebook Claimant Ceglia Charged With Faking Contract. Paul Ceglia, who sued Facebook Inc.
(FB) and its chief executive officer, Mark Zuckerberg, was arrested and charged with fabricating evidence to support his multibillion-dollar claim that he owns part of the world’s biggest social network. Ceglia faked e-mails from Zuckerberg, destroyed evidence and forged the 2003 contract on which he bases his claim, U.S. prosecutors said. Ceglia was arrested today by federal agents at his home in Wellsville, New York, according to a statement from the office of U.S. #Security Alert : Facebook Two-Factor Authentication fail ! #Security Alert : Facebook Two-Factor Authentication fail !
Last year Facebook has launched a security feature called Login Approvals or two-factor authentication. This is a follow-up security update regarding Facebook Login from Facebook. They have already integrated Facebook login email alerts to get notification emails or SMS messages whenever a suspicious person uses your Facebook account from a different location.
The 10 Most Hated Companies in America. Customers, employees, shareholders and taxpayers hate large corporations for many reasons. 24/7 Wall St. reviewed a lengthy list of corporations for which there is substantial research data to choose the 10 most hated in America.
Read the ten most hated companies in America Research about companies comes in two sets. One is public research about consumer satisfaction, customer care, pricing of products and services, and brand impressions. Wall St. research takes into account another set of factors, which include present earnings, profit forecasts, product development and quality, and brand valuations. Facebook2006. f8 - 2011. Facebook invites hackers to compete in world competition.
By Bonnie Eslinger Daily News Staff Writer Posted: 01/12/2012 06:17:07 AM PST0 Comments|Updated: 2 years ago Call it Mavericks for geeks.
But instead of surfing waves, hackers from all over the world will get a chance to show off their creative programming skills at Facebook's third annual Hacker Cup, which starts with a 72-hour online qualification round later this month. For Websites - Développeurs Facebook. As mentioned, the code above uses the common defaults for the options available when initializing the SDK.
You can customize some of these options, if useful. Changing SDK Language In the basic setup snippet, the en_US version of the SDK is initialized, which means that all the dialogs and UI will be in US English. You can change this language by changing the js.src value in the snippet. Facebook Said to Plan $10 Billion IPO. Facebook Inc. is considering raising about $10 billion in an initial public offering that would value the world’s largest social-networking site at more than $100 billion, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
The company may file for the IPO before the end of the year, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are private. Exact timing for the filing hasn’t been determined, the person said.
Police procedures leaked for getting into Facebook, other accounts. Confidential guidelines telling police how to access Facebook, Microsoft, Blizzard, and AOL user accounts have appeared online this week.
The files, known colloquially as law enforcement guidelines, typically tell police what types of user data are stored, how long they're retained, and what procedures to use to gain access to them. A few types of requests--for e-mail less than 180 days old, for instance--tend to require search warrants. In general, basic subscriber information can be disclosed with a subpoena, and a court order is required for more extensive information (whether that's sufficient is the subject of ongoing litigation in the Twitter-WikiLeaks case). Here are some highlights from each company's policies: Blizzard: Logs of Internet Protocol addresses are kept "indefinitely," according to the company behind World of Warcraft. Facebook CIA Project: The Onion News Network. OpNoPro Saves Privacy No Profiles!! Facebook near privacy settlement with FTC: report.
Facebook "Trusted friends" Security Feature Easily Exploitable ~ THN : The Hacker News. Rose State College Cyber Security Sleuths Offer Facebook Security Tips. Facebook Fans Can Affect Company Stock Prices, Researcher Says? Pressing the like button on a company's Facebook page can have a much more wide-ranging impact than you might have guessed.
A new study finds a possible correlation in the relationship between the financial performance of public companies and their consumer following or fan count on Facebook. What the researchers found was that the more popular the company was on Facebook, the better its stock price seemed to do. "The results suggest that changes in fan count trends could signal changes in consumer brand company stock prices, creating the potential for new applications of social media popularity metrics as economic indicators," the researchers said. There is an association between a company's Facebook popularity and how active its Facebook users are and its stock price, Pace University researcher Arthur O' Connor told BusinessNewsDaily. O'Connor believes his research has implications for how brands manage their social media presence . "Popularity is a two-edged sword," said O'Connor.
The real FaceBook: Facebook refuses to shut rape page run by schoolboy. Controversy ...
Facebook has refused to remove a page about rape. Photo: Getty Images. Exposing 25 Facebook phishing websites ~ The Hacker News. Exposing 25 Facebook phishing websites Geeks at Security Web-Center Found 25 Facebook and list them.
Sometimes spammers create fake pages that look like the Facebook login page. When you enter your email and password on one of these pages, the spammer records your information and keeps it. This is called phishing. The fake sites, like the one below, use a similar URL to Facebook.com in an attempt to steal people's login information. The people behind these websites, then use the information to access victims' accounts and send messages to their friends, further propagating the illegitimate sites.
Facebook Threatens Lawsuit Against Mark Zuckerberg. First the Winklevoss twins sued Mark Zuckerberg. Now, it looks like Facebook is poised to do the same. Facebook is threatening to sue Mark Zuckerberg, an Israeli entrepreneur who recently changed his name from Rotem Guez to "Mark Zuckerberg," according to Zuckerberg's site MarkZuckerbergOfficial.com. "No it is not a joke," Zuckerberg wrote in an email to The Huffington Post. "I am now legally Mark Zuckerberg, and it's for the next 7 years :)" The twisted tale of Zuckerberg vs.
First, Zuckerberg, formerly Guez, sued Facebook over its failure to return his "hacked" profile. In early December, Guez claimed he officially changed his name to Mark Zuckerberg and has posted pictures of his ID card and passport to prove it.