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October 30th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in News

Look at your Facebook account. If you receive an invitation event or message subject is fast food restaurants McDonald’s, beware. That’s an invitation or fake links. When clicked, you will be infected with a virus that will capture information on your Facebook page.

Invitations or the link sent the various forms. One of the posts that provoke curiosity is a video that he says will open the secret about the McDonald-opening.

Actually the attack, called “piracy click HappyMeals” This has been a long time. From the data we collect, information about this attack has emerged since last August. It was a lot of incoming links title like this: “OMG! I cannot BELIEVE THIS a Woman found in her McDonalds Nuggets! WTFF! ”

Or like this: “Holy crap! I just saw your MOM in this VIDEO !!!!” (more…)

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Tags: Facebook, McDonald, Security, virus

Facebook’s Zuckerberg to Give $100 Million to Newark Schools

September 24th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in News

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive and a founder of Facebook, has agreed to donate $100 million to improve the long-troubled public schools in Newark, and Gov. Chris Christie will cede some control of the state-run system to Mayor Cory A. Booker in conjunction with the huge gift, officials said Wednesday.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to give $100 million to the troubled Newark, New Jersey school system.

The $100 million for Newark is the initial gift to start a foundation for education financed by Mr. Zuckerberg. This would be by far the largest publicly known gift by Mr. Zuckerberg, whose fortune Forbes magazine estimated last year at $2 billion.

Mr. Zuckerberg, 26, who grew up in Westchester County and now lives in California, has no particular connection to Newark. But in July, he and Mr. Booker met at a conference and began a continuing conversation about the mayor’s plans for the city, according to people familiar with their relationship.

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Foursquare and Facebook Places Wars!

August 31st, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Blogging

Foursquare and Facebook Places are enemies to compete in location-based social networking service. However, when Facebook Places born into the world, even just Foursquare who cheered.

Do not get me wrong, this is not because the Foursquare joy to welcome the presence of Facebook Places but to celebrate a record 3 million users who’ve just printed Foursquare

Quoted from News, Monday (30/08/2010), this record achieved in just over a half months after the previous user Foursquare reach 2 million people. Whereas previously it took one year for the Foursquare to be able to collect one million users. (more…)

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Millions Details of Facebook Users Published

July 29th, 2010 by admin | 1 Comment | Filed in News

The privacy of millions of Facebook users has been jeopardised after some of their details were harvested and published on the internet. An online security consultant who wished to highlight the social networking site’s privacy issues published a list of data taken from more than 100million users’ profiles.

Ron Bowles used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, collecting data not hidden by the user’s privacy settings.

The list has been shared as a downloadable file which has now spread rapidly across the internet, prompting anger and concern from millions of users around the world.

The file has now spread rapidly across the net prompting anger and concern from millions of users all over the world.
On Pirate Bay, the world’s biggest file-sharing website, the list was being distributed and downloaded by more than 1,000 users, but it is believed it will be acessed by thousands more in a matter of days. (more…)

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Tags: Facebook, informations, Privacy, social networking

Togetherville,social networking for Kids

July 21st, 2010 by admin | 1 Comment | Filed in Blogging, News

TOGETHERVILLE, social networking site designed for children ages six to ten year has now officially launched. Site built by Palo Alto Togetherville is expected to reduce anxiety in social networking services. This free service can provide access of children to take advantage of social networking. Not only that, parents were still able to provide supervision to ensure their children are protected from harm until they are old enough.

“We want to make a good digital citizen,” said Mandeep Dhillon as the founder and CEO of the company. “It’s worth keeping the kids from the web,” he added. In these sites, no one can access the account without the consent of her parents’ child. (more…)

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7 Things to Stop Doing Now on Facebook

May 14th, 2010 by admin | 1 Comment | Filed in Blogging

Famous Social Networking

1. Using a Weak Password

Avoid simple names or words you can find in a dictionary, even with numbers tacked on the end. Instead, mix upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols. A password should have at least eight characters. One good technique is to insert numbers or symbols in the middle of a word, such as this variant on the word “houses”: hO27usEs!

2. Leaving Your Full Birth Date in Your Profile

It’s an ideal target for identity thieves, who could use it to obtain more information about you and potentially gain access to your bank or credit card account. If you’ve already entered a birth date, go to your profile page and click on the Info tab, then on Edit Information. Under the Basic Information section, choose to show only the month and day or no birthday at all.

3. Overlooking Useful Privacy Controls (more…)

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Tags: Facebook, Password, Privacy, Security, social networking

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