Just before Facebook’s privacy blow up, the company announced that they were going to make the service more secure against hackers.  I encountered something that was undoubtedly a result of these new measures.  Below is what happened with my own account.  I logged in to see the following: This type of monitoring seems to be [...]

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Until recently I was under the impression that Facebook’s Friend Finder would suggests friends based on common friends or on common schools or employers.  That had been the bulk of the suggested friends I was getting. A few weeks ago, I noticed that Facebook had started suggesting people that I know that had no common [...]

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I’m seeing a lot of articles about Koobface, trojan horse malicious software that was designed to travel from user to user via Facebook. You’d get a message from one of your Facebook friends mentioning a video allegedly starring you. When you click on the link, you are taken to a site that gives a message [...]

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