Facebook dumps Secret Crush application over spyware claim
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After a security firm reveals a popular Facebook third-party app contains a spyware download, the social network removes it--1.5 million installs later.
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Ziff Davis - Is spyware slowing down your surfing?
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After the New York digital media maven posted copious screenshots of a Facebook profile on Gawker, a blog reports that the social-networking site is ready to crack down on such violations.
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Serves up ads for deceptive security software Facebook has become the latest website to be found pushing services that delivers highly deceptive security warnings designed to trick users into buying software.â¦
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Users and companies have created a slew of applications for Facebook's open-app program, launched in May 2007. Some are stellar and some are stinkers; here are the ones Wired News readers love best.
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Blog: In what appears to be the first case of its kind, federal agents sent spyware called "CIPAV" to the owner of a MySpace account tied to e-mail bomb threats against a high school.
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Blog: Parakey co-founder, newly acquired by Facebook, comments on a post requesting that the service revoke a controversial new move that makes members give details about how they know their new Facebook friends.
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Facebook kicked off the new year with additional tweaks to its development platform as it continues to&#160;grapple with external programmers&#160;who spur adoption of their applications among Facebook members through deceitful and abusive practices.Facebook has been battling this problem since May, when it opened its social-networking site to third-party developers interested in building applications for it.Chief among the annoyances have been self-promotion features in applications such as bulk unsolicited e-mails and intrusive message displays. Although&#160;Facebook has made several changes&#160;in past months, the problems persist.On Jan. 1, a Facebook official made an official blog posting titled &quot;New Year. New Rules&quot; in which he states that some developers have been sneakily bypassing the amount of e-mail notifications applications are allowed to send.&quot;Specifically, these developers have been sending notification e-mails to users for one application with another application, in order to &#39;pool&#39; the total quota of e-mail notifications together,&quot; wrote Dave Morin, Facebook&#39;s senior platform manager.In addition, other applications have been designed to trick Facebook members into inadvertently installing other applications by placing links into e-mail messages, internal notifications and the Mini-Feed feature in member profiles.&quot;Starting today, we&#39;ll begin blocking links in Mini-Feed, Notifications, and Notification E-mails which lead to the installation of another application in the hopes that developers focus on user experience and engagement being paramount, not deceiving users for the sake of growth,&quot; Morin wrote.&#160;
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Firefox co-founders get networking Facebook, the ubiquitous, in-your-face social [cough] networking website, has acquired Parakey, a startup run by the co-founders of Mozilla Firefox.â¦
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The UK Information Commissioner is investigating Facebook's data protection policies after a user complained.
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Facebook is now taking steps to prevent some third-party applications from engaging in "inappropriate actions".
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Rumors abound linking Ask Jeeves and Firefox.
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Company reps keep the flaw secret Facebook users who type sensitive information into a site feature known as Notes may be interested in knowing that it is currently experiencing a bug that allows documents designated as private to be read anyway.â¦
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In the wake of a Wired News investigation, the social networking site
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Facebook has made a move to allow applications created on its site to run on other Web sites.The social network&#39;s new JavaScript client library, released on Friday, ends the restriction that prevented developers from running Facebook applications on other Web sites, the company announced.&quot;Since the library does not require any server-side code on your server, you can now create a Facebook application that can be hosted on any Web site that serves static HTML,&quot; wrote Facebook&#39;s Wei Zhu on the company&#39;s developers blog.Nick O&#39;Neill, a blogger at All Facebook, noted that Facebook&#39;s move to let developers extend its platform to outside sites is a significant one for the company.&quot;The public is now aware of the possibilities to leverage Facebook outside of the main site and that is big news,&quot; he wrote. &quot;Rather than building your applications strictly within Facebook, you can now extend the full functionality of the platform to your own Web site and leverage Facebook as the tool for managing members and their relationships. Want to build your own social gaming platform that resides on your own Web site but leverages the power of users&#39; Facebook relationships? Now you can!&quot;Sean Aune, a blogger at Mashable, noted that the move means that Facebook applications &quot;could possibly start popping up on ordinary Web sites and blogs any day now.&quot;Aune added that Facebook is looking to stem criticism for being like a &quot;walled garden in that things do go in but nothing comes out. It would appear that they made the first step last night in &#39;coming out&#39; as it were. Web apps will be able to use cookies to track the users when they are using the app in other places on the Internet. So, in theory, you could play a game on any site and your stats will still be tracked.&quot;Computerworld is an InfoWorld affiliate.
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Security firm Panda Software says that Browsezilla secretly visits pornographic Web sites if you use the browser.
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Blackmail charges dropped against tracking software duo Blackmail charges have been dropped against a pair of hackers accused of mounting an extortion scam against MySpace as part of a plea-bargaining agreement.â¦