facebook security | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:07:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png facebook security | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Facebook deny Symantec ‘security risk’ report https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/security-software/slyvia/facebook-deny-symantec-security-risk-report/ https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/security-software/slyvia/facebook-deny-symantec-security-risk-report/#respond Thu, 12 May 2011 07:28:11 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=44825 Symantec recently wrote a report on FaceBook security issues, highlighting that millions of people had personal data at risk. Yesterday Facebook made a statement arguing with the points that Symantec published. Facebook spokeswoman Malorie Lucich sent out an email to ComputerWorld which read “We appreciate Symantec raising this issue and we worked with them to …

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Symantec recently wrote a report on FaceBook security issues, highlighting that millions of people had personal data at risk. Yesterday Facebook made a statement arguing with the points that Symantec published.

Facebook spokeswoman Malorie Lucich sent out an email to ComputerWorld which read “We appreciate Symantec raising this issue and we worked with them to address it immediately …. But, specifically, no private information could have been passed to third parties, and the vast majority of tokens expire within two hours. The report also ignores the contractual obligations of advertisers and developers, which prohibit them from obtaining or sharing user information in a way that violates our policies.”

Symantec said they found security application flaws which had accidentally given third parties access to personal user data on the social networking platform. The report also said that third parties could post messages under user accounts. “Fortunately, these third-parties may not have realized their ability to access this information. We have reported this issue to Facebook, who has taken corrective action to help eliminate this issue” said Symantec.

FaceBook have denied these claims, saying that ‘the vast majority of tokens expire within two hours.'

KitGuru says: risk or no risk? is two hours enough to cause damage?

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Facebook enhance privacy settings – after pressure https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/zardon/facebook-enhance-privacy-settings-after-pressure/ https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/zardon/facebook-enhance-privacy-settings-after-pressure/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 08:56:01 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=3038 Facebook have been under pressure lately to protect their users privacy and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has blamed the issues on ‘growing pains'. Mark was keen to point out that engineers and designers have been working hard in the last three weeks to improve privacy settings. “We don't pretend that we are perfect” he said, following …

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Facebook have been under pressure lately to protect their users privacy and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has blamed the issues on ‘growing pains'.

Mark was keen to point out that engineers and designers have been working hard in the last three weeks to improve privacy settings. “We don't pretend that we are perfect” he said, following up with “We try to build new things, hear feedback and respond with changes to that feedback all the time”.

In the next few weeks changes will be made which mean that one click can can block any third party sites from tapping into the information held on any Facebook member. Additionally another easy to toggle setting will stop applications on Facebook reading into user information unless authorised.

Changes will be made to status updates and users will be able to put information such as video content into ‘buckets' specifically for just friends … or for everyone on the net if they want to share.

These changes have been made due to increased pressure from European and U.S. regulators over various privacy practices from Facebook and Google. Europe authorities told Microsoft, Yahoo and Google this week that their search engines aren't complying with privacy laws and have asked for details on whether they are making user information anonymous.

KitGuru: Big Brother is still watching you.

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