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Facebook’s Zuckerberg Says The Age of Privacy is Over

posted in News & media on Jan 10th, 2010

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told a live audience yesterday that if he were to create Facebook again today, user information would by default be public, not private as it was for years until the company changed dramatically in December. In a six-minute interview on stage with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, Zuckerberg spent 60 seconds talking [...]

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Trojan pokes Facebook for zombie commands

posted in News & media on Nov 4th, 2009

Crimeware distributors have begun using Facebook as a command and control channel for a Trojan that turns compromised Windows PCs into zombie drones. Zombie clients poll the Notes section of the mobile version of Facebook for instructions. Compromised clients might be instructed to download further code from a specified web site or told to wait [...]

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