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According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook is working on a service that include iPhone users provides news . The business newspaper relies on unnamed sources to come. Organization itself from Facebook Reader news would bundling both users and publishers.
Facebook would already more than a year working on the service. Reader would look like Flipboard, the app that collects news based on the user preferences. The social network refused to comment to the Journal. Facebook would like to increase with Reader. Its attractiveness to advertisers in the mobile segment.
According to anonymous sources, Mark Zuckerberg personally oversee the project and in contrast to the development of other services is deliberately taken the time to a full-fledged news service to make it as good as possible to work on both smartphone and tablet Reader. Initially targeted at Apple's iOS as a platform.
Facebook just published a data breach notification on its security blog.
You might not immediately notice that from the title of the article,
which announces itself as an "Important Message from Facebook's White
Hat Program."
The cloud (bad pun intended) is that Facebook's systems made the fault possible in the first place.
What Facebook seems to be admitting to, in Friday's breach notification message, is that it was careless with the aggregated data accumulated from contact list uploads.
The problem, says Facebook, lay in its Download Your Information
(DYI) feature, which exists so you can suck down everything you've
previously entrusted to the social networking giant.
DYI improves availability, because it allows you to make your own off-site backup of everything you've stored on Facebook. It improves transparency, because it acts as a record of everything you've uploaded to Facebook over the years.But there was a bug in DYI, of the data leakage/unauthorised disclosure sort.
Apparently, DYI was capable of letting you download more than you'd uploaded in the first place.
On Facebook Some posts, claiming that the social
media network has partnered up with Walmart and they’re giving away free
$1,000 (764 Euro) gift cards.
“Hey friends, I got a $1000 Gift Card from WALMART
as a Christmas Gift! Get it right away! -> bil.ly,” the malicious
Facebook posts read.
Users who fall for it and click on the link are taken to a website
where they’re presented with instructions on how to provide their authentication tokens.
Then they’re asked to install a bogus Walmart Facebook app and participate in all sorts of surveys.
By doing what the scammers ask of you, you’re actually allowing them to
post on your Facebook timeline. Furthermore, by participating in the
surveys, you’re helping them make a profit.
If you did make the mistake of installing the Facebook application, then
you could be spamming the message to your friends. Clean up your
newsfeed and profile to remove references to the scam. (click the “x” in
the top right hand corner of the post).
In the latest
Christmas-themed Facebook scams, victims are lured with posts
advertising certain videos of attractive young girls. The posts are
entitled something like “[OMG] This video was on the NEWS,” “Guess which
celebrity this is,” or “Seriously she got attacked.”
When victim click on the links, they’re taken to a fake Facebook page that promises a “fail blog daily video.”
On this page, the play button of the video window hides a
malicious script which either triggers a “Like” – in order to propagate
the scam –, or it further redirects victims to another fake video page
that utilizes the Cost Per Action advertising method to unlock an alleged YouTube video.
However, after a certain period, victims who don’t press the play
button are automatically presented with a message that reads “Merry
Christmas!” after which they’re told that they won a prize from
retailers such as ASDA, Best Buy or Walmart.
This is the point where users are directed to sites that support
affiliate programs. These services are not illegal, but the crooks are
relying on the Facebook posts to draw as many users as possible with
their affiliate IDs.
By accessing the site with the cybercriminals’ affiliate ID, victims are actually helping the crooks make money.
One noteworthy aspect of this campaign is the fact that the scammers
are relying on compromised freedns.afraid.org accounts to host the scam
sites. freedns.afraid.org is a service that allows domain owners to
benefit from free DNS services.
Fortunately, experts say that Facebook has this campaign under
control and the number of scam posts has decreased. However, users are
still advised to avoid such videos and voucher offers since similar
operations might be launched at any time.
