Shak's Blog » facebook http://www.shakeeltariq.com Technology bites Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:17:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Latest Facebook redesign http://www.shakeeltariq.com/2009/10/28/latest-facebook-redesign/ http://www.shakeeltariq.com/2009/10/28/latest-facebook-redesign/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:40:10 +0000 Shakeel Tariq http://www.shakeeltariq.com/?p=309 The only thing constant about change is that it sucks.

For proof, look no farther than the 300 million-plus Facebook users who spent last weekend coming to terms to the social network’s latest, but certainly not last, redesign.

The Twitter-like filter-free home page everyone hated a few months back was gone, and the default feed everyone missed so much was back — sort of — though some “friends” are suspiciously absent. Now equipped with a crazy random happenstance of an algorithm, the News Feed seems to update whenever it wants, with whatever info it feels like.

via Latest Facebook redesign, I hate you most of all – TODAY Technology & Money.

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]]> http://www.shakeeltariq.com/2009/10/28/latest-facebook-redesign/feed/ 0 AVG Technologies: Hackers using automated Facebook profiles to spread malware http://www.shakeeltariq.com/2009/10/04/avg-technologies-hackers-using-automated-facebook-profiles-to-spread-malware-6/ http://www.shakeeltariq.com/2009/10/04/avg-technologies-hackers-using-automated-facebook-profiles-to-spread-malware-6/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:14:00 +0000 Shakeel Tariq http://www.shakeeltariq.com/2009/10/04/avg-technologies-hackers-using-automated-facebook-profiles-to-spread-malware-6/ AVG Technologies: Hackers using automated Facebook profiles to spread malware | TopNews United States
According to a last week blog post by antivirus and Internet security firm AVG Technologies, hackers have worked out a way to create computer-generated fraudulent Facebook profiles, which they are using to dupe credulous users into installing spyware.

Reports of the Facebook spyware incidentally coincides with a recent FBI warning saying that social networking sites are increasingly being used by cybercriminals to spread malware.

As per the AVG, the users of its LinkScanner – which screen webpages in real time – have reported the detection of “rogue spyware attacks” being spread via Facebook pages.

Elaborating about the hacker-attacks aimed at spreading malware, AVG Research Chief Roger Thompson said that most of the deceptive profiles show the same image of a blue-eyed blonde woman, though with slight variations in names and birthdates.

Though the LinkScanner has come across “hundreds” of supposedly phony pages, Thompson told The Reg that the pages probably run in thousands. He added: “There are enough of them that it’s probably an indication of an automated attack. I just can’t see someone creating the same profile time after time after time.”

The reported creation of a notably huge number of automated Facebook profiles by the hackers clearly shows that they have successfully circumvented Facebook’s CAPTCHA system, whereby a user a required to retype a series of given letters to activate an account!

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]]> http://www.shakeeltariq.com/2009/10/04/avg-technologies-hackers-using-automated-facebook-profiles-to-spread-malware-6/feed/ 0 AVG Technologies: Hackers using automated Facebook profiles to spread malware http://www.shakeeltariq.com/2009/10/04/avg-technologies-hackers-using-automated-facebook-profiles-to-spread-malware/ http://www.shakeeltariq.com/2009/10/04/avg-technologies-hackers-using-automated-facebook-profiles-to-spread-malware/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:13:00 +0000 Shakeel Tariq AVG Technologies: Hackers using automated Facebook profiles to spread malware | TopNews United States
According to a last week blog post by antivirus and Internet security firm AVG Technologies, hackers have worked out a way to create computer-generated fraudulent Facebook profiles, which they are using to dupe credulous users into installing spyware.

Reports of the Facebook spyware incidentally coincides with a recent FBI warning saying that social networking sites are increasingly being used by cybercriminals to spread malware.

As per the AVG, the users of its LinkScanner – which screen webpages in real time – have reported the detection of “rogue spyware attacks” being spread via Facebook pages.

Elaborating about the hacker-attacks aimed at spreading malware, AVG Research Chief Roger Thompson said that most of the deceptive profiles show the same image of a blue-eyed blonde woman, though with slight variations in names and birthdates.

Though the LinkScanner has come across “hundreds” of supposedly phony pages, Thompson told The Reg that the pages probably run in thousands. He added: “There are enough of them that it’s probably an indication of an automated attack. I just can’t see someone creating the same profile time after time after time.”

The reported creation of a notably huge number of automated Facebook profiles by the hackers clearly shows that they have successfully circumvented Facebook’s CAPTCHA system, whereby a user a required to retype a series of given letters to activate an account!

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]]> http://www.shakeeltariq.com/2009/10/04/avg-technologies-hackers-using-automated-facebook-profiles-to-spread-malware/feed/ 1 AVG Technologies: Hackers using automated Facebook profiles to spread malware http://www.shakeeltariq.com/2009/10/04/avg-technologies-hackers-using-automated-facebook-profiles-to-spread-malware-2/ http://www.shakeeltariq.com/2009/10/04/avg-technologies-hackers-using-automated-facebook-profiles-to-spread-malware-2/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:13:00 +0000 Shakeel Tariq AVG Technologies: Hackers using automated Facebook profiles to spread malware | TopNews United States
According to a last week blog post by antivirus and Internet security firm AVG Technologies, hackers have worked out a way to create computer-generated fraudulent Facebook profiles, which they are using to dupe credulous users into installing spyware.

Reports of the Facebook spyware incidentally coincides with a recent FBI warning saying that social networking sites are increasingly being used by cybercriminals to spread malware.

As per the AVG, the users of its LinkScanner – which screen webpages in real time – have reported the detection of “rogue spyware attacks” being spread via Facebook pages.

Elaborating about the hacker-attacks aimed at spreading malware, AVG Research Chief Roger Thompson said that most of the deceptive profiles show the same image of a blue-eyed blonde woman, though with slight variations in names and birthdates.

Though the LinkScanner has come across “hundreds” of supposedly phony pages, Thompson told The Reg that the pages probably run in thousands. He added: “There are enough of them that it’s probably an indication of an automated attack. I just can’t see someone creating the same profile time after time after time.”

The reported creation of a notably huge number of automated Facebook profiles by the hackers clearly shows that they have successfully circumvented Facebook’s CAPTCHA system, whereby a user a required to retype a series of given letters to activate an account!

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]]> http://www.shakeeltariq.com/2009/10/04/avg-technologies-hackers-using-automated-facebook-profiles-to-spread-malware-2/feed/ 1 AVG Technologies: Hackers using automated Facebook profiles to spread malware http://www.shakeeltariq.com/2009/10/04/avg-technologies-hackers-using-automated-facebook-profiles-to-spread-malware-3/ http://www.shakeeltariq.com/2009/10/04/avg-technologies-hackers-using-automated-facebook-profiles-to-spread-malware-3/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:13:00 +0000 Shakeel Tariq AVG Technologies: Hackers using automated Facebook profiles to spread malware | TopNews United States
According to a last week blog post by antivirus and Internet security firm AVG Technologies, hackers have worked out a way to create computer-generated fraudulent Facebook profiles, which they are using to dupe credulous users into installing spyware.

Reports of the Facebook spyware incidentally coincides with a recent FBI warning saying that social networking sites are increasingly being used by cybercriminals to spread malware.

As per the AVG, the users of its LinkScanner – which screen webpages in real time – have reported the detection of “rogue spyware attacks” being spread via Facebook pages.

Elaborating about the hacker-attacks aimed at spreading malware, AVG Research Chief Roger Thompson said that most of the deceptive profiles show the same image of a blue-eyed blonde woman, though with slight variations in names and birthdates.

Though the LinkScanner has come across “hundreds” of supposedly phony pages, Thompson told The Reg that the pages probably run in thousands. He added: “There are enough of them that it’s probably an indication of an automated attack. I just can’t see someone creating the same profile time after time after time.”

The reported creation of a notably huge number of automated Facebook profiles by the hackers clearly shows that they have successfully circumvented Facebook’s CAPTCHA system, whereby a user a required to retype a series of given letters to activate an account!

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]]> http://www.shakeeltariq.com/2009/10/04/avg-technologies-hackers-using-automated-facebook-profiles-to-spread-malware-3/feed/ 0 AVG Technologies: Hackers using automated Facebook profiles to spread malware http://www.shakeeltariq.com/2009/10/04/avg-technologies-hackers-using-automated-facebook-profiles-to-spread-malware-4/ http://www.shakeeltariq.com/2009/10/04/avg-technologies-hackers-using-automated-facebook-profiles-to-spread-malware-4/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:13:00 +0000 Shakeel Tariq AVG Technologies: Hackers using automated Facebook profiles to spread malware | TopNews United States
According to a last week blog post by antivirus and Internet security firm AVG Technologies, hackers have worked out a way to create computer-generated fraudulent Facebook profiles, which they are using to dupe credulous users into installing spyware.

Reports of the Facebook spyware incidentally coincides with a recent FBI warning saying that social networking sites are increasingly being used by cybercriminals to spread malware.

As per the AVG, the users of its LinkScanner – which screen webpages in real time – have reported the detection of “rogue spyware attacks” being spread via Facebook pages.

Elaborating about the hacker-attacks aimed at spreading malware, AVG Research Chief Roger Thompson said that most of the deceptive profiles show the same image of a blue-eyed blonde woman, though with slight variations in names and birthdates.

Though the LinkScanner has come across “hundreds” of supposedly phony pages, Thompson told The Reg that the pages probably run in thousands. He added: “There are enough of them that it’s probably an indication of an automated attack. I just can’t see someone creating the same profile time after time after time.”

The reported creation of a notably huge number of automated Facebook profiles by the hackers clearly shows that they have successfully circumvented Facebook’s CAPTCHA system, whereby a user a required to retype a series of given letters to activate an account!

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According to a last week blog post by antivirus and Internet security firm AVG Technologies, hackers have worked out a way to create computer-generated fraudulent Facebook profiles, which they are using to dupe credulous users into installing spyware.

Reports of the Facebook spyware incidentally coincides with a recent FBI warning saying that social networking sites are increasingly being used by cybercriminals to spread malware.

As per the AVG, the users of its LinkScanner – which screen webpages in real time – have reported the detection of “rogue spyware attacks” being spread via Facebook pages.

Elaborating about the hacker-attacks aimed at spreading malware, AVG Research Chief Roger Thompson said that most of the deceptive profiles show the same image of a blue-eyed blonde woman, though with slight variations in names and birthdates.

Though the LinkScanner has come across “hundreds” of supposedly phony pages, Thompson told The Reg that the pages probably run in thousands. He added: “There are enough of them that it’s probably an indication of an automated attack. I just can’t see someone creating the same profile time after time after time.”

The reported creation of a notably huge number of automated Facebook profiles by the hackers clearly shows that they have successfully circumvented Facebook’s CAPTCHA system, whereby a user a required to retype a series of given letters to activate an account!

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]]> http://www.shakeeltariq.com/2009/10/04/avg-technologies-hackers-using-automated-facebook-profiles-to-spread-malware-5/feed/ 0 Facebook testing new control for shielding updates http://www.shakeeltariq.com/2009/06/25/facebook-testing-new-control-for-shielding-updates/ http://www.shakeeltariq.com/2009/06/25/facebook-testing-new-control-for-shielding-updates/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:59:45 +0000 Shakeel Tariq http://www.shakeeltariq.com/2009/06/25/facebook-testing-new-control-for-shielding-updates/ The Associated Press: Facebook testing new control for shielding updates
Facebook is testing new privacy controls that will allow the online hangout’s roughly 200 million users to decide who should see each of their personal updates.

In a Wednesday announcement, Facebook said the option will enable users to customize their postings for specific groups of friends.

For instance, a person may want to share certain things — like how they’re feeling about the weather — with everyone while limiting the audience able to read other developments — like a wild night of partying.

Some Facebook users have gotten into trouble with employers and parents who have read updates containing inflammatory remarks or tales of indiscretions.

The additional privacy controls initially will only be available to some Facebook users.

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