Facebook wants assurances from the Drug Enforcement Administration that it's not operating any more fake profile pages as part of ongoing investigations.
Facebook's chief security officer said to DEA Administrator that law enforcement agencies need to follow the same rules about being truthful on Facebook as civilian users. Those rules include a ban on lying about who you are. Sullivan in response to a New York woman's federal lawsuit claimed that a DEA agent created a fake online persona using her name and photographs stored on her cellphone. A woman said her pictures were retrieved from her cellphone after she was arrested.
Read moreIt should come as no surprise that most mobile apps run some sort of analytics on user behavior. But in the case of Facebook, the social network’s Messenger app for iOS apparently tracks quite a bit more than most users likely realize.
iOS forensics and security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski spent Tuesday morning disassembling Facebook Messenger’s iOS binary, at one point declaring via Twitter that “Messenger appears to have more spyware type code in it than I've seen in products intended specifically for enterprise surveillance.” In an email, Zdziarski said that Messenger is logging practically everything a user might do within the app.
Read moreA major insight into human behavior from pre-internet era studies of communication is the tendency of people not to speak up about policy issues in public—or among their family, friends, and work colleagues—when they believe their own point of view is not widely shared. This tendency is called the “spiral of silence”.
Some social media creators and supporters have hoped that social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter might produce different enough discussion venues that those with minority views might feel freer to express their opinions, thus broadening public discourse and adding new perspectives to everyday discussion of political issues.
Read moreFacebook will soon be pushing out an update to its iOS Messenger app meant to patch a vulnerability that could allow attackers to place pricy calls from users' phones by simply making them click on a web link.
The flaw has been recently discovered by developer Andrei Neculaesei from Copenhagen, and can be triggered by using the tel URL scheme. "The tel URL scheme is used to launch the Phone app on iOS devices and initiate dialing of the specified phone number," it is explained in an Apple document. "When a user taps a telephone link in a webpage, iOS displays an alert asking if the user really wants to dial the phone number and initiates dialing if the user accepts.
Read moreActivists just got another reason to worry about what spooks might be able to learn about them, with boffins demonstrating that a decent traffic fingerprint can tell an attacker what's going on, even if an app is defended by encryption.
The researchers from the Universities of Padua and Rome have found that for activities like posting messages on a friend's Facebook wall, browsing a profile on a social network, or sending an e-mail, there's no need to decrypt an encrypted data flow. The researchers note that even in the hands of a knowledgeable user there are opportunities for “malicious adversaries willing to trace people … the adversary can still infer a significant amount of information from the properly encrypted traffic.”
Read moreFacebook went down briefly in the US Friday morning, but it faces a more lingering snafu in Europe.
An Austrian man is fronting a class action lawsuit against Facebook for violations of European privacy laws. Law student Max Schrems announced today that he is suing Facebook subsidiary Facebook Ireland in a commercial court in Vienna, Austria. Mr. Schrems is bringing the lawsuit against Facebook for violations regarding: “[t]he privacy policy, participation in the PRISM program, Facebook’s graph search, apps on Facebook, tracking on other web pages (e.g. via the “like buttons”), ‘big data’ systems that spy on users or the non-compliance with access requests,” according to the group’s website FBClaim.com.
Read moreThe Department of Defense of the USA makes experiments on social networks users. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency provides monitoring of microblog service and Internet users‘ posts on such large social networks as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Kickstarter.
The Pentagon invests large amount of money for carrying out experiments which are connected with users‘ mood and its manipulation. Technological Department of Defence and scientists of university hold the Pentagon project, called Social Media in Strategic Communication. It provides monitoring of Twitter microblog service and Internet users‘ posts on large social networks.
Read moreRecently there was a message that Facebook made experiment on users without their permission to find out how people react to various types of information. The results showed that emotions of other people in social network can affect our own. At once news caused concern and indignation.
In 2003 a second year student Mark Zuckerberg created site, where photos of his classmates were uploaded for comparison. From the very beginning this idea seemed to be a game though in order to create it Zuckerberg had to hack the whole base which contained information about students. Mark could be excluded from Harvard University for his actions.
Read moreIn the wake of employers going so far as to ask prospective employees to hand over their Facebook passwords, a practice that has been heavily frowned upon by Facebook itself, social media ‘screening’ continues to be a common practice amongst human resource professionals.
According to a CareerBuilder survey, as many as 37% of employers are checking out prospective employees on social media before they make a final decision. When venturing onto prospective employees profiles, they’re looking for one of five things. 65% responded that they want to see if the candidate presents himself/herself professionally, 51% said they want to see if the candidate is a good fit for the company culture.
Read moreSecurity researchers from MetaIntell have discovered security vulnerability in the new version of Facebook SDK that put millions of Facebook user's Authentication Tokens at risk.
With help of Facebook SDK for Android and iOS it is easy to integrate mobile apps with Facebook platform. The set of program tools gives creators a chance to simplify process of reading and writing to Facebook APIs and other. “Login as Facebook” function is a secure and personalized way for users to sign, because sharing passwords is not needed.
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