Security Archive

How to keep yourself protected while chatting on Yahoo Messenger

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Yahoo Messenger and its ‘Chat Rooms’, told us how to chat and make new friends online years before the launch of Facebook. But it also gave birth to online spamming which infected thousands of users and their privacy. Though most of the people stopped using Yahoo Chat Rooms now but spammers are still there. And [...]

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LastPass Premium Accounts Free for Students with .edu Accounts!

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LastPass, the ultimate cloud based password manager is giving away premium accounts to students for six months. If you’re a student, having a .edu email address, you can take advantage of this offer. Many of the universities these days have a .edu domain (although, Indian universities rarely have that domain), stanford.edu for example. So, if [...]

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Your Facebook Password is Not Completely Case Sensitive!

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Facebook passwords are not ‘completely’ case sensitive. You actually have 3 passwords for your Facebook account, including the normal password with which you login. So what are those other two passwords, apart from the one you know? Your actual Facebook password with case reversed. Your actual Facebook password with first letter capitalized, this is only [...]

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Facebook Phone Contacts, visible to everyone or not?

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The rumors that your Phone contacts are visible to everyone on Facebook are not true, claimed Facebook on Thrusday (August 11th 2011). According to these rumors all the Facebook friend’s contact numbers in contact list of your phone was set visible to everyone on Facebook by Facebook officials but Facebook denied it. The actual thing [...]

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Facebook events like “First 100000 will get free iphone/shoes” are fake!

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This post is to inform you guys that Facebook events like this one “The first 100000 participants Will Get cool Facebook iphone Free” and many others are fake. Facebook users are blindly following the instructions given on such events to get a free gift which they are never going to get. Following these instructions results [...]

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Facebook Deletes 20,000 Underage user’s Profile Everyday!

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Facebook has revealed that it deletes almost 20,000 underage user’s Facebook profile. Well, that is something good which Facebook does.

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Facebook admits the Need to Improve their Policies!

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Facebook’s European director of policy,Richard Allan has admitted that the site needs to improve it’s security. The data that users delete form Facebook should be removed from site forever and permanently. Nice thought I must say.

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Japanese Tsunami RAW Tidal Wave Footage – New Facebook Scam

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Facebook users are being tricked into clicking on links which claim to be raw CNN footage of the Japanese tsunami. This is a plot to earn money by driving web traffic to take online surveys.

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Facebook rolls out anti-bullying tools with White House support

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Facebook announced two new safety features on Thursday. It was after President Obama and the first lady had posted a video on Facebook regarding the meeting!

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[Security Alert] Facebook Profile pictures stolen !

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A dating website hacked Facebook users profile photos and put on their dating website. Well, this is something serious about the security of Facebookers ! I just got to know that a website called lovely-faces.com stole about a million photographs from Facebook. They categorized these people under some categories like nationality, gender, funny, smug, easy-going [...]

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