At the 2011 DefCon hacker conference, a team from Facebook made their and delivered an unusual message: Please hack us. We’ll pay you for it. Facebook’s Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan, was at the event promoting the company’s new “bug bounty program,” which pays researchers to report security flaws in the social-networking site of more [...]

How does a unknown dating site launch with 250,000 member profiles on the first day? Simple. You scrape data from Facebook. At lease this was the approach taken by a new site called Lovely-Faces.com this week. Profiles with names, locations and photos were “scraped” from publicly accessible Facebook pages. The site then categorized the unwitting [...]

Facing a lot of criticism for not offering a secured browsing option, the site has recently added a new feature to browse the social network on a secure connection (https). However, https:// browsing is not turned on by default and must be manually activated from your “Account Settings” page.