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INFOGRAPHIC: How Hackers Have Targeted Twitter Over The Years
Earlier Monday, we reported that the USA Today Twitter account succumbed to an attack by Script Kiddies, a hacker group that was able to take control of the newspaper's account and post a series of tweets. However, this was far from an isolated incident. In July, FOX News was hit by hackers who posted tweets about the false assassination of President Barack Obama,... Read more » Foursquare Lets You Make Your Home Venue More Secure, Adds Privacy Option
When using Foursquare, it is important to protect your privacy. For obvious reasons, it's not exactly wise to share the location of your home when you check-in and then tell the world when you are away from your house by checking-in at another venue and sharing that information on other social networks. With that in mind, Foursquare has rolled out a new way for... Read more » Twitter Adds SSL Security Feature To Tweet And Follow Buttons
Twitter has given developers and publishers a way to add the Tweet and Follow buttons to secure HTTPS pages on websites. The company has enabled SSL support for the buttons in its API. Websites which have secure pages will now be able to add Twitter's buttons to those pages, allowing users to share content and follow relevant Twitter accounts without having to... Read more » ‘AWESOME Video Nicole’s Baby Kicking - The Belly View - Unbelievable’ Scam Spreads Across Facebook
People are fascinated by babies – plain and simple. Perhaps that’s why this video scam of a baby kicking inside his mother’s pregnant belly is spreading like wildfire throughout Facebook. The video will show up in your News Feed as a post by a friend, and it certainly looks like it could be real. Common factors that lure people into video scams, like the... Read more » Facebook Agrees Voluntary Code Of Conduct With Germany Over Privacy Concerns
Facebook said Thursday that it will sign a voluntary code of conduct agreement with Germany to help protect user data in the country. This marks the first time that Facebook has agreed to such a measure in a country that is sensitive about privacy. According to Egypt.com, Facebook Director of European Public Policy Richard Allan met with Hans-Peter Friedrich,... Read more » REPORT: 15% Of Videos Posted On Facebook Are Actually Likejacking Attacks
Around 3 in 20 of the videos posted on Facebook have been identified as likejacking attacks, where scammers try to trick you into Liking a piece of content without your knowledge or consent. ZDNet reports that Internet security company Symantec analyzed a sample of 3.5 million Facebook posts with videos on August 2, where it was found that around 15 percent of unique... Read more » Facebook Page Admin Issue Raises Questions Over Security
When you create a Facebook page, the social network allows you to add other admins to help you manage it. However, there is an issue with this in that Facebook allows those other admins to remove your administrative privileges so that they can hijack the page and take control of it. This issue has been highlighted by Naked Security, which claims that this is a... Read more » Flickr Introduces Cool Location-based Privacy Feature, ‘Geofences’
Flickr has launched an interesting new privacy feature that allows you to create geo privacy settings for photos that have been tagged with a location. The new feature, which is called “geofences,” allows you to create circles on a map to control who can view the location of photos that you've geotagged within that circle's real-world boundaries. This will... Read more » Facebook Proposes Privacy Policy Changes, Wants Your Feedback
In February, Facebook proposed a new format for its privacy policy. Following positive feedback from both users and privacy experts, the social network wants to make the new-look policy official, but before it does so it wants to give everyone the chance to have a say on the proposed updates. In an effort to make the policy a little easier to understand, Facebook... Read more » Twitter Switches On HTTPS By Default
Twitter has started to switch users over to the more secure HTTPS protocol. Previously, you would either have to change a setting in your profile or manually type “https://twitter.com” into your Web browser's address bar to activate HTTPS. The company sent out a tweet Tuesday in which it says that it is enabling HTTPS by default for a small number of users at... Read more » 
