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Russian Hacker Selling 1.5 Million Facebook Accounts
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1242 Million Facebook Accounts tweets Million Facebook Accounts 04/23/10 by Jolie O’Dell A hacker who calls himself Kirllos has obtained and is now offering to sell 1.5 million Facebook IDs at astonishingly low prices — $25 per 1000 IDs for users with fewer than 10 friends and $45 per 1000 IDs for users with more than 10 friends — according to researchers at VeriSign’s iDefense. Looking at the numbers, Kirllos has stolen the IDs of one out of every 300 Facebook users. Information for sale includes login credentials; whether or not the e-mail addresses and passwords are legitimate is currently unknown.
HOW TO: Clean Up Your Facebook Profile
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Facebook offers extensive options for fine tuning what individual applications and people can see or do on your Facebook profile, but if you haven’t been following all the changes (and Facebook likes to change often), you might feel lost in all the options. We’re offering a rundown of the most efficient ways to make more sense of your Facebook experience.
The simplest way to control what shows up in your News Feed is to click “Hide” on an item you don’t want to see. Facebook will ask you whether you want to hide that person or page, once you confirm it, you won’t see anything from them again.
Ten Ways a Facebook Fan Page Helps Your Business
Even if members have no intention of buying anything, the community you build can benefit your business.
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Facebook is a social network, not a shopping network, so why should any business spend resources establishing and maintaining a Fan Page on Facebook? (A Fan Page, by the way, is a profile for a business or organization rather than for an individual.) Because even if members have no intention of buying anything on Facebook, the relationships you establish and community you build there can benefit your business in countless ways. Here, I reveal the top 10 ways a Facebook Fan Page can help your business.
5 Ways To Drive More Traffic To Your Website
“If you build it, they will come.”
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If I’ve learned anything over the past few years, it’s that this old axiom doesn’t always apply, especially in this day and age. Simply putting together a website with the latest technology platforms on top of a semi-clever URL won’t do the trick. There are, however, five simple things that you can implement to move the traffic needle up and improve your metrics.
Search Engine Optimization: Search engine optimization, otherwise known as SEO for short, is one of the hottest topics in website development today. Not in the know? Here’s a quick rundown. According to Wikipedia, it’s “the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” or un-paid search results as opposed to Search Engine Marketing (SEM).” It’s like tidying up your website and filling out all of the appropriate forms so that search engine crawlers will get the most context from your site and reward you with a higher page rank.
Flock: A remarkable new web browser for social networking.
Internet Explorer has been pretty much my defacto web browser, but since getting involved with this whole “Social Networking” thing, I’ve been on a quest to find the best tool to coordinate all of my online activities–Facebook, Twitter, Picture Sharing, etc.
I’ve tested the Adobe Air desk top applications like TweetDeck, FaceDesk and others, but none seemed to allow the integration of all the services I track. Then I came across a new web browser called Flock. Primarily, I spend the majority of my time on Facebook and Twitter, as it seems these are the two sites that have risen to the top of the heap based on ease of use and the number of people using the services; and a person only has so many hours in a day, so keeping up with many more than that was proving to be quite a chore.
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FaceBook Users Beware
BBB Warns: Your Facebook Friends Could Actually be Hackers, Scam Artists, and ID Thieves
FaceBook, one of the most popular social networking sites on the Internet, has become the target for several different phishing scams. Here is brief list of some of the scams you should be on the look-out for:
Friend in Distress:
Scam: Facebook users may receive a message in their inbox from a friend claiming to be in a dire situation — such as stranded in a foreign country — and needing money wired to them. The recipient doesn’t realize that their friend’s account has been hacked and that the message was sent by scammers. The Facebook user has no way of recovering the wired money after they learn that their friend is safe and sound.