With social media playing such an important role in everyone’s day-to-day lives, one has to wonder how this can affect the security of online accounts and profiles. Social media might have revolutionized the way we communicate with others, but it’s also revolutionized the way that hackers stalk their victims.
Imagine this worst case scenario:
Hackers can impersonate…
Our smartphones now allow us to take more photos than ever before, but even as those cameras get better, they still don’t allow you to take DSLR-quality images. For that, you still need big sensors and the right kind of lens for the right kind of situation. PhotoSpotLand is a new service for those of…
University of New Haven researchers have uncovered a host of data-leakage problems in Instagram, Vine, Nimbuzz, OoVoo, Voxer and several other Android apps.
The problems include storing images and videos in unencrypted form on Web sites, storing chat logs in plaintext on the device, sending passwords in plaintext, and in the case of TextPlus, storing screenshots…
Liverail has been purchased by Facebook.
Watch out! Increase in video ads coming to a Facebook page near you.
Facebook has purchased the video advertising company Liverail, reports are claiming it paid between $400 and $500 million.
Facebook VP Brian Boland announced the buyout, saying that with the addition of Liverail, Facebook, will be better placed to serve more…
Thousands of former Myspace users, who long ago grew up, got Facebook and forgot that Myspace was ever a thing, got an unsettling message from the undead social network over the weekend. The site is still around, like some sort of digital zombie. And it has billions of pictures from a time before the Internet knew…
Have you been infected with Facebook? Don't worry, like a viral outbreak, Facebook use will explode before plummeting down to Myspace levels of obscurity, says a new study from Princeton University.
Researchers found that Facebook has "already reached the peak of its popularity and has entered a decline phase."
How bad will it get? Facebook will…
Technology has enabled us to connect and interact with people all over the globe, in real-time. It has made the stuff of science fiction science fact, satellite communication, wireless internet, and the ability to keep track of 100+ contacts and interactions. But how do you unplug from this technology and interact with those who are…
Facebook is a very popular social networking site, over 1 Billion users around the world use it. As with any online activity you are vulnerable to all types of attacks such as social engineering and phishing attacks to obtain your information. Thankfully Facebook and other social networking sites have improved their security features to prevent…
This past week you may have seen or heard talk of a mysterious black bar appearing on top of Google.com. Well it wasn’t by accident. In fact it was a sign of something new to come from Google. What is it you ask? “Google+.” What is Google+? Google+ is a top-secret social project that Google…