Facebook Will Maybe Start Doing Something About Ads For Shady Clothing Sites
View attachment 13782 You may have seen ads on Facebook or elsewhere online for what look like decent quality and trendy clothes at rock-bottom prices. They have some satisfied customers, but many of...
View ArticleFacebook Bots Are a Tough Sell After Microsoft Tay’s Racist Tirade
As more than 2,500 coders and corporate-brand caretakers gather this week to hear what's in store for the future of Facebook Inc., the buzzword of the company's event will be bots. The social...
View ArticleFacebook’s Big New Plan: Fewer Passwords, More Robots
View attachment 13808 At the annual F8 developer conference today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out his vision for how the big blue social network plans to take over the world in the coming...
View ArticleFacebook pays 10-year-old $10,000 for finding Instagram security flaw
Plenty of tech companies are offering very generous rewards to those who manage to find security loopholes in their networks — just ask 10-year-old Jani, who isn’t even old enough to have an Instagram...
View ArticleMicrosoft and Facebook are building a giant internet cable in the ocean
View attachment 14016 Facebook and Microsoft announced today their plans to lay a massive data cable in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Construction will begin August 2016 and expected to finish in...
View ArticleYou Need To Update Your Facebook Privacy Settings Again To Opt Out Of New...
View attachment 14052 Facebook announced in recent weeks that they’re expanding their advertising empire. With that change, came a stealthy new privacy setting for users — one that all of us are...
View ArticleFacebook bug allowed attackers to change Messenger content
View attachment 14080 Facebook recently patched a vulnerability that allowed attackers to change the content of their messages sent via the Android Messenger app. On Tuesday, Check Point security...
View ArticleFacebook Would Like To Know If An Advertiser Scammed You
View attachment 14161 It’s one thing if an online ad is misleading or misrepresents the site that you click on, but what happens when you order an item that isn’t as promised? As overseas clothing...
View ArticleHow a hacker stole a Facebook user's account with just a fake passport
View attachment 14174 A hacker successfully commandeered a Facebook user's profile by conducting a social engineering attack that involved a fake passport. The hack occurred on June 26 when an...
View ArticleFacebook Thinks You Love Ads So Much, It’ll Helpfully Block Your Ad-Blocker...
View attachment 14310 Facebook — one of the world’s largest advertising companies — magnanimously acknowledges that in your life on the internet, you’ve probably encountered some bad ads. And you...
View ArticleHide your Facebook Friends List from Spoofers
View attachment 14341 This past weekend my wife's Facebook page got spoofed. We learned what was happening as her phone started a constant stream of alerts from family and friends with messages saying...
View ArticleFacebook Opens Up A Little About The Very Many (Many Many) Ways It Targets You
14347[/ATTACH] Facebook is, primarily, an advertising business. It doesn’t just want you to grudgingly put up with its ads, and it certainly doesn’t want you to block them. No, it wants you to love its...
View ArticleFacebook Internet Satellite Destroyed Spectacularly In Rocket Failure
View attachment 14368 There was an “anomaly” today during testing of a SpaceX rocket at Cape Canaveral… the kind of “anomaly” that creates a spectacular fireball, goes “BOOM,” and leaves a smoke plume...
View ArticleMan arrested after using Wanted poster as his Facebook profile pic
View attachment 14381 When police put your photo on a “Wanted” poster for violating probation on two counts of battery, it’s not the best idea to use that photo as your Facebook profile picture. A...
View Article14-year-old sues Facebook over nude photo posted to “shame” site
View attachment 14390 A 14-year-old girl from Northern Ireland is suing Facebook after a naked photo was published on a “shame” page and repeatedly reposted. At a hearing in Belfast’s High Court, the...
View ArticleHow any Facebook page could have been hijacked or deleted… in just 10 seconds
View attachment 14420 Can you imagine just how much online criminals would pay to be able to hijack, and even delete, any page on Facebook? Facebook pages are used by organizations, businesses and high...
View Article$5 million dollars paid as Facebook’s bug bounty program turns 5
View attachment 14480 900 bugs. That’s a lot. $5,000,000. That’s a lot, too. That’s how many bugs Facebook’s pioneering bug bounty program has uncovered since it launched five years ago – and how much...
View ArticleDid Facebook tell your friends that you had died?
View attachment 14559 An unusual bug on Facebook briefly labelled many people as dead. The error on Friday caused the social network to show a memorial banner on user profiles for people who were still...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg has his Pinterest account hacked (again)
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has had extraordinary success at building a social network that has attracted over a billion users. But that’s not to say that he’s had such luck in every other area of...
View ArticleChange This New Setting If You Want To Keep Facebook Video From Being Really...
View attachment 14726 Facebook just announced several tweaks to the way video will start performing on its service soon. However, in the name of enhancing “customer experience,” Facebook is adding one...
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