Experience is said to be the best teacher, but it also tends to be a very cruel one. Sometimes, people only learn the lesson when it’s too late. This is usually the case when it comes to breaches in online security. Some people are very quick to give away their trust along with their personal…

For all our complaints about Facebook and how it’s invading our privacy, there’s no denying that the social networking site may just one day be the very thing that saves our lives. In fact, this is exactly what happened when the 8.9 magnitude earthquake hit Japan, followed by a devastating 33-foot Tsunami. Facebook, along with…

How many times have you found your “friends” posting a very unflattering picture of you on Facebook only to find that they would not remove it? If it has never before happened to you, then you’re lucky. But others aren’t quite as lucky and have to suffer through all the embarrassment and shame. Facebook’s new…

Warner Bros. is taking the first baby steps in turning Facebook into a movie house. Now, Facebook users can rent movies directly the social networking site at the price of $3 or rather, 30 Facebook credits. Rent a Movie on Facebook Millions and millions of people log into Facebook each day. In fact, if the…

One of the reasons why so few people ever bother to check out Facebook’s privacy policy (or any other site’s, for that matter) is that it’s so technical and absolute torture to just go through a single page. The whole thing sounds so robotic that, half the time, you’re trying to understand what exactly it…

Silicon Republic reports that Facebook has been hit with at least five different spam attacks in the last 24 hours. Security experts are touting this as the biggest spam attack on Facebook in such a short period of time. They are seeing user news feeds riddled with spam messages. Urban Schrott, of ESET stated, “Facebook…

With a new upgrade on the Comment Plug-in, Facebook has levied a huge influence on how people act and react on the internet. Comments on third party websites can now be automatically linked to people’s Facebook account and shown on their news feed, which will no doubt make them more careful about what they do…

Facebook’s ‘like’ button has just gotten an upgrade that makes it similar in functionality to the share button. Before, whenever you ‘like’ something outside of Facebook, a small, seemingly insignificant one-sentence update is placed on the Recent Activities log on your wall. With the new update, whenever you ‘like’ something, that page or article gets…

Facebook announced today they will be re-enabling a feature allowing application developers access to user mobile phone and address data. Amid much public and governmental backlash, Facebook instituted a delay of the initiative just three days after its January release. A Facebook spokesperson wrote, “We are making changes to help ensure you only share this…

Dan Wallach, a computer science professor at Rice University recently discovered some very disturbing vulnerabilities while accessing Google and Facebook from a Smartphone running the Android operating system. In an undergraduate class experiment, Wireshark network sniffer was deployed, and Wallach then conducted a series of internet transmissions from his Smartphone. The first finding was that…