A couple of month passed since Facebook introduced full SSL support. This optional feature lets you browse Facebook via a secure connection (https) whenever possible. Facebook via https is now available to all users and why are so few people using it? I suppose because the option is disabled per default. -> Enable this option! […]
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Abstract. In the ongoing arms race between spammers and the multi-million dollar anti-spam industry, the number of unsolicited e-mail messages (better known as “spam”) and phishing has increased heavily in the last decade. In this paper, we show that our novel friend-in-the-middle attack on social networking sites (SNSs) can be used to harvest social data […]
Apparently Facebook decided to open-up profiles to the public yet a little further in future, read more at this blog entry. So whilst a plethora of security research highlights how broken this service really is, Facebook keeps on exposing more private information to third-parties on a sneaky opt-out basis. Want to catch up how broken […]