Thousands of Facebook users are being attacked by a nasty Facebook worm that forces you to “like” a Facebook page, which then automatically spreads it through a user’s wall.
The scammers have figured out a way to exploit the “Like” button via Javascript and are using it to force users to like the page, thus spreading it inadvertently through postings on
Facebook walls.
The result is thousands of wall posts for a page entitled “Shocking! This girl killed herself after her dad posted this photo.” Clicking the link enclosed spreads the worm further. Unfortunately, this is not the first time we’ve heard of such an exploit.
Do not click any of these links or go to this Facebook page. It will force you to like the page and spread the worm further. As far as we can tell though, the exploit doesn’t compromise your account or steal your password. We’ve put an e-mail out to the Facebook team for more information.
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1957: Space Race: Launch is Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. 2002: Alphonse Chapanis, founder of ergonomics died. (b. 1917)
2004: SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private space, by being the first private craft to fly into space.
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1942: Spaceflight: the first successful launch of a V-2 / A4 rocket from test stand VII at Peenemunde, Germany. It is the first man made object to reach space.
2005: Ronnie Barker, English comic actor died (b. 1929).
Many Android apps send personal data without users knowing the information is being gathered, reveals research.
A 26-year-old piece of software at the heart of PCs is about to get an update that will make for boot-up times of mere seconds.
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1950: Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz was first published.
1959: The Twilight Zone premiers on CBS television.
From a marketing standpoint, Facebook’s stunning audience growth means the site has become a channel unto itself.Five-hundred million’s an awful big number. It’s the world’s population divided by 14. It’s the approximate number of people living in European Union countries. It’s the combined population of Latin America, minus Columbia and Argentina. It’s also the number of global active users on Facebook as of this morning, the company made known in a video and blog post today. The milestone was widely anticipated this week, but is no less stunning for having been predicted. The company now ranks fourth among global Web properties in terms of unique users, according to comScore. It still lags behind Google (932 million), which will likely be the first Web company to reach 1 billion monthly users, as well as Microsoft (789 million) and Yahoo (622 million). However Facebook’s estimated annual growth rate – 73 percent – eclipses all of those sites. (Since comScore captures visitors who are not registered, its estimates skew higher than Facebook’s internal numbers.)
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1843 – The News of The World tabloid began publishing in London.1908 – Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825
1928 – George Peppard, American actor was born… (d. 1994) Don’t you love it when a plan comes together (The A-Team).
1958 – NASA created to replace NACA
1969 – The concorde supersonic transport plane breaks the sound barrier for the very first time.
1975 – Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, USA
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Study Finds that 50% of Android Apps Secretly Share User Data
A study of 30 of the 358 most popular apps for Andriod devices found that 50% of them sent location information to advertisers without users’ knowledge.
Some apps dispatched location information as often as every 30 seconds, even when an application was not running. One sent this information to advertisers before it was even run for the first time. Seven apps shared unique identifier numbers, and others dispatched phone and SIM card numbers.
Facebook, is rolling out some marked improvements to its Photos product which include hi-res photos, photo-download links, bulk tagging options and a nice lightbox interface for viewing images throughout the site. The lightbox is a similar features that Flickr rolled out recently which have, in the past, prevented
Facebook from competing in the photo-sharing realm. Starting today and rolling out across the board soon, you will be able to upload and download hi-res photos up to 2048 pixels wide or high — that’s large enough for print-quality images. (Much bigger than the current 720 pixels.) Each photo will come with a link to download the JPEG file, as well.
The site’s new bulk tagging options will allow the uploading individual to temporarily group images and tag friends by simply clicking on thumbnails.
Another interesting change is Facebooks lightbox which puts the main focus on the images by creating a darker background box and simple navigation as the picture shows below. This will be activated by clicking on any image through out the Facebook page (Album, News Feed or on friend’s Wall).
As you can see that ads are also appearing in the lightbox which although not great we do understand that hosting hi-res photos More >