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Facebook architecture allows 3rd parties to install bunch of applications that will let you play, make some quiz and other. Basically the will suck your profile informations and parse the result in facebook pages. The major problem is that Facebook doesn’t control the apps and some code are really bad. Here is an exemple of […]

Press up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, enter key then press up and down then magic circles will appear. Just reload the page to remove it. Facebook dev have much time to loose to make heavy dirty code… What’s scary is that any javascript can be included in the page based […]

Recently, Roger Thompson, chief research officer at security firm AVG, discovered over half a dozen Facebook applications that had been compromised by malicious hackers. Although the apps’ reach was small with relatively few users being affected, Thompson was concerned because it was the first time he had seen apps themselves hacked as opposed to something […]

Facebook is cautioning its users to be more watchful, as a group of some Eastern European hackers are reportedly offering an online password hacking service that can help others accessing their user accounts on the website for just $100. Security firm PandaLabs has come up with this striking revelation about the service that can enable […]

Vanish is a research system designed to give users control over the lifetime of personal data stored on the web or in the cloud. Specifically, all copies of Vanish encrypted data — even archived or cached copies — will becomepermanently unreadable at a specific time, without any action on the part of the user or any third party or centralized service.

I noticed few weeks ago that facebook chat was censoring some sites when using posting then to another friend. Not a big deal, you’ll tell me. Not really the biggest concern is that it mean that chat are also monitored and censored. Some words or website address cannot be posted, well in theory…