Related News: Anger mounts after Facebook’s ‘shadow profiles’ leak in bug

Posted on June 25, 2013 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. ZDNet published an article titled Anger mounts after Facebook’s ‘shadow profiles’ leak in bug.

The personal information leaked by the bug is information that had not been given to Facebook by the users – it is data Facebook has been compiling on its users behind closed doors, without their consent.

A growing number of Facebook users are furious and demand to know who saw private information they had expressly not given to Facebook.

Facebook was accidentally combining user’s shadow profiles with their Facebook profiles and spitting the merged information out in one big clump to people they ‘had some connection to’ who downloaded an archive of their account with Facebook’s Download Your Information (DYI) tool.

Source: ZDNet

Related News: Alabama state senator’s wife demands possibly fake women stop soliciting her husband on Facebook

Posted on June 10, 2013 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. AL.com published an article titled Alabama state senator’s wife demands possibly fake women stop soliciting her husband on Facebook.

In a post Monday on a Facebook account belonging to Alabama state Sen. Shadrack McGill, R-Woodville, a poster identifying herself as McGill’s wife said women have used the social media network to approach her husband “multiple times” since he was first elected in 2010.

“I have been silent for long enough!!” a person who identified herself as Heather McGill wrote. “NO MORE! Multiple times since being in office he has gotten emails from women (who may not even be real) inviting him to explore, also sending pictures of themselves.”

Source: AL.com

Related News: New video law lets you share your Netflix viewing on Facebook

Posted on January 18, 2013 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN Money published an article titled New video law lets you share your Netflix viewing on Facebook.

Netflix is now free to create a U.S. Facebook app that shares users’ viewing history if they opt in, after the company successfully lobbied Congress to amend a 1988 law.

A Netflix spokesman said the company “will launch social features in the U.S.” sometime in 2013. The law in question, called the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), previously prohibited “a video tape service provider” from revealing customer information without the customer’s written consent.

Source: CNN Money

Related News: Dumbest Facebook Post Ever?

Posted on January 7, 2013 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Shine from Yahoo! published an article titled Dumbest Facebook Post Ever?.

An Oregon teenager has landed himself in the county jail for what must be one of the dumbest Facebook gaffes ever: posting about his drunk-driving hit-and-run escapade.

“Drivin drunk … classsic 😉 but to whoever’s vehicle i hit i am sorry. :P” was the early-morning post that quickly led to the at-home arrest of Jacob Cox-Brown in the Oregon-coast city of Astoria, reports the Daily Astorian.

Source: Shine from Yahoo!

Related News: Facebook scheme lands 2 in jail

Posted on November 30, 2012 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Andalusia Star News published an article titled Facebook scheme lands 2 in jail.

It is believed that Adams soon took advantage of peoples’ generosity by using cash donations – solicited under the guise of treating sick animals – to pay for personal items such as electric bills and groceries for the family.

Dean said people gave more than $25,000, and the number could climb as the investigation continues.

Dean said at one point, Adams claimed to have been a victim of a burglary where all the animal supplies were stolen from a local storage facility.

“That claim was completely false,” he said.

Source: Andalusia Star News

Related News: Facebook Enabling HTTPS by Default for North American Users

Posted on November 20, 2012 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Threatpost published an article titled Facebook Enabling HTTPS by Default for North American Users.

Facebook this week will begin turning on secure browsing be default for its millions of users in North America. The change will make HTTPS the default connection option for all Facebook sessions for those users, a shift that gives them a good baseline level of security and will help prevent some common attacks.

Facebook users have had the option of turning on HTTPS since early 2011 when the company reacted to attention surrounding the Firesheep attacks. However, the technology was not enabled by default and users have had to in and manually make the change in order to get the better protection of HTTPS.

Now, users will have to manually turn HTTPS off if they don’t want it, a distinction that is a major change, especially for Facebook’s massive user base, which has become a major target for attackers.

Source: threatpost

Related News: Wicksburg student faces terroristic threats charge

Posted on October 15, 2012 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Dothan Eagle published an article titled Wicksburg student faces terroristic threats charge.

Houston County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Tony Gonzalez said Friday that the 13-year-old student has been charged with making terroristic threats based on an investigation earlier this week.

Gonzalez said the arrest was related to statements made on Facebook. He said the student did not have a specific plan, nor did he have weapons.

Source: Dothan Eagle

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