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High school students’ Facebook photos ended up on porn site

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17 girls, some as young as 14 yeas old and all from the same high school in Massachusetts, were recently called to the dean’s office for some shocking news: Pictures of all of them were found on a pornographic website along with their personal information such as their name and the name of their high school.

Now a federal investigation is underway looking into how the pictures of the 17 girls ended up on the pornographic website. The FBI is looking into whether any laws were broken when someone downloaded pictures from Facebook and put them on their pornographic website. According to former prosecutor Bill Fallon, there might not have been any illegal actions taking place as the pictures were freely available on the internet already. Continue reading →

Facebook Scam: Whitney Houstons autopsy reveals a shocking secret that explains her death

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Whitney Houston died earlier this week, and it didn’t take more than a few days before the notorious Facebook scammers started taking advantage of the tragic news in order to lure people into clicking on their Facebook links.

The wording of this Facebook scam is as follows:
[video] – Whitney Houstons autopsy reveals a shocking secret that explains her death. – www.tmzdailynews10825.com – Breaking News: Coroners autopsy reports reveals a dark past and secret life which tragically led to Whitney Houstons death.

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Two people are dead because they unfriended woman on Facebook

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Marvin Potter, 60, (on the right), is in custody and is being charged with two counts of first degree murder. He is accused of having shot a couple that had both unfriended his 30-year-old daughter Jenelle on the social site Facebook, Johnson County Sheriff Mike Reece said Wednesday.

The problems began when Billy Payne Jr. and his girlfriend, Billie Jean Hayworth, unfriended Marvin Potter’s daughter Jenelle on Facebook. According to the police, Jenelle started to harass the couple in the time leading up the murders on January 31st. Continue reading →

Facebook Data Center in Oregon doubles the power usage in the county

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The interior of Facebook data center in Prineville, Oregon

A $210 million monster data center in Prineville, Oregon has been built by Facebook. The data center has a capacity of 28 megawatts usage, this was revealed by Facebook earlier this week together with local economic development officials. The entire power usage of the whole county of Prineville was prior to this center being built only 30 megawatt, so the consumption will be doubled with this Facebook server center.

Facebook who according to the most recent rumors are preparing for their IPO to happen very soon, have built this 300,000 square foot monster, and apparently two more are on the way according to sources in the local community.
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Facebook Scam: Chuck Norris dies at age of 71! Not a Joke.

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Firstly, the man who brought us Walker Texas Ranger, Chuck Norris is alive. A link to a video that claiming to shed light on the supposed death of the action movie and series star at 71 years old has hit Facebook users hard with an epidemic-like survey scam.

 ”Chuck Norris isn’t dead, and the messages point to an all-too-familiar survey scam.” commented Senior technology consultant at Sophos, Graham Culley. (Sophos is an international developer and vendor of security software and hardware including anti-spyware, anti-virus & anti-spam)

The text of the wall post is as follows:
[video] Chuck Norris dies at age 71! Not a Joke. – www.worldnews77551.com – See the video to find out how he died. News today of Chuck Norris death at age 71 has been met with confusion and humour, but sadly it is true.

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Facebook now forces their timeline on everyone

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Whether you like it or not, very soon Facebook Timeline will be mandatory for all.

“Over the next few weeks, everyone will get timeline. When you get timeline, you’ll have 7 days to preview what’s there now. This gives you a chance to add or hide whatever you want before anyone else sees it.”

The above statement was given by Facebook Engineer Paul McDonald on January 24, 2012 in an update on facebook.com’s home blog.

Facebook announced that all profiles will be moved over into the new Timeline mode over the next few weeks. Since the birth of the Timeline in September 2011, users have had the chance to choose whether or not they would opt into Timeline, but now in a few weeks – the ‘older’ profile style will no longer be available.

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Be informed, Be protected – 6 Critical Features for Facebook Security

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Ignorance is the real enemy of many that complain about security on online social networks. Knowledge is key to knowing and understanding how facebook security features can protect you and the steps you can take to make sure that you have these features turned ON..

1. HTTPS browsing at all times

On most sites displaying or requiring valuable information (e.g. the payment page for online shopping) you might have noticed have noticed that the url of the webpage address starts with an “https://”

The additional “s” assures you that a secure code is being used for communication and no one can get hold of your valuable information.It is now possible to activate this HTTPS browsing for your facebook to run on secure codes at all times.

  1. Click the Account menu in the top right corner and select Account Settings.
  2. Next to the Account Security heading click the Change link.
  3. Check the “Browse Facebook on a secure connection (https) whenever possible” checkbox under the Secure Browsing (https) heading.
  4. Click the Save button.

The only potentially annoying thing is that once this setting is turned on, you have to be prepared for it to be turned off in certain situations. For instance the secure setting is not available in Facebook apps. Every time you enter one of the non secure areas you’ll be prompted that you are leaving the secure connection and you will have to respond ti this prompt each time.
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Facebook Scam: wooow now I have seen how many hours I spend on Facebook

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Another Facebook Survey Scam is trending at the moment, more than 300,000 people has been lured into installing the rogue Facebook application and completed the surveys designed to make the scammers revenue. 300,000 is a very big number, and that goes to show how good a business these scams are for the people that are behind them, let’s say they get $0.10 per completed survey that’s $30,000 is a matter of days from this scam alone, and they have tons of scams running simultaneously.

The wording of this scam is the following:
wooow now I have seen how many hours I spend on Facebook…to find your time click here > > – on.fb.me/zn3Fvm

The wall post looks like this:
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Facebook Scam: THIS WEEK ONLY! $100 Applebee’s Gift Card Giveaway!

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Another Facebook scam has surfaced recently. Yet another Facebook scam that feeds of people’s desire to click things that appears to have something to do with free giftcards. If you haven’t learnt already, then everything that sounds too good to be true – well it probably is.

This scam is not a survey scam like most other scams we see on Facebook, this one is actually worse in the way that the end-goal for the scammers is to get a browser plugin installed on your computer. This can lead to all sorts of bad things happening, it could be a key-logger that would enable the scammers to access anything that you log into via your browser after the plugin is installed.

The wording of this scam reads as follows:
THIS WEEK ONLY! $100 Applebee’s Gift Card Giveaway! – www.applebees68316.com – Visit out site to get a complimentary $100 gift card and enjoy your favourites at any Applebees in the country. Have a great start to the new year!

The wallpost looks like this:
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Facebook Scam: The number one song when I was born was

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I have seen this wall post on many of my friends’ walls this past week, so I thought I would look into it and see what the buzz was about. It turns out that this is just another Facebook Survey Scam made in order for the scammers to make a profit on you spending time on completing surveys and clicking on sponsor offers. This scam is slightly different than most other in the way that it actually ends up doing what you expected it to do before clicking the link and starting the process. You DO end up seeing the #1 song when you were born, but to get there you must jump through hoops and help the scammers share their application and complete surveys to make them money.

This is the wall post text:
The number one song when I was born was – [your song here]
Find your Birthday Song Here: http://on.fb.me/itsmysong
What was the #1 song on the day you were born?

Here is what the wall post looks like:
facebook-scam-the-number-one-song-when-i-was-born-was-wall

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