Experts from VeriSign’s iDefense team say fraudulent and hijacked Facebook accounts are being sold on the black market. During and investigation in February, iDefense workers discovered that login information for 1.5 million Facebook accounts was for sale through numerous online black market sites. One Facebook account thief, who goes by the user name of “kirllos”, […]
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AT&T claims they have fixed a problem on their mobile network that placed misdirected Facebook account cookies on the wrong user’s mobile devices. Mobile users on the AT&T network who experienced the problem reported that when they visited the Facebook social network, they were instantly logged into other people’s Facebook accounts and had to all […]
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When a Georgia mom and her daughters logged into their Facebook accounts from mobile phones last week they were shocked to find that they had access to other people’s Facebook accounts with total access to their personal data. The mistake was the result of a network routing glitch from the family’s wireless carrier AT&T that […]
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The Facebook social network experienced wild growth in 2009. Facebook went from 50 million registered people in January to more than 350 million registered people in less than a year. Facebook spent $9.5M in 2009 to settle a lawsuit regarding their advertising tool that was rolled out in 2007 and viewed by many as an […]
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Facebook’s new privacy options make it easier for business users to show different personal information to business contacts and personal friends. However, users will have to be willing to navigate the new privacy options to divide their personal information between their professional and personal contacts. Although not difficult, Facebook’s new privacy options require time to […]
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