A hacker has exploited a vulnerability in Facebook, to gain access to the fan site of Mark Zuckerberg. There he called on behalf of the company founder to do, money to invest in the company - and met with encouragement. How to Mark Zuckerberg did not mean it when he defended a year ago, less stringent data protection as a social trend: The Facebook founder is now itself the victim of a hacker attack.
The intruder had left on Sugar's Facebook fan page on this output as a comment and review of the founder. The company on Wednesday confirmed the incident. The hacker had a software error advantage made by a handful of pages to be linked under a false identity have been possible. The error, according to a spokesman now been removed.
The bogus article on sugar's Facebook page fans were encouraged to invest own money into the company, so Facebook would be independent of banks. Also, the hacker a link to the Wikipedia entry left on social business. More than 1,800 readers voted on by the click of a corresponding field that the contribution had fallen to them.
Regardless of this incident, Facebook announced on Wednesday that users can continue to come through secure connections to their side. This was to the risk of network piracy to be reduced, it said in a statement. Particularly useful are secure access, where public computers were used - such as libraries and universities.
"Sponsored Stories" provides new privacy of discussions, the social network provides a new service for new privacy debate: Who mentioned a product or a company of the future can find themselves in the role of an unpaid advertising message. With the "Sponsored Stories" allows advertising clients to highlight messages from Facebook users.
Entries such as "Like" or check-in applications for Places could then be visible as advertising within Facebook profile use of a user, Facebook said in a video. For members it would be such that they would face on their profile page with advertising, which uses its own contact person as advertising figures - in the sense of classical testimonials ("I like brand XYZ," I was looking at coffee-brewer-so "etc.).
It applies the rule. The insertion only see the relevant Facebook friends a user - those to whom the information system is going to received such messages go but easily in the flood of Facebook messages to, so the new offer has Facebook. set itself a target to link the lives of its users in as many areas - and also want to earn advertising revenue.
The course met repeatedly to criticism from privacy advocates, accusing the network with the now more than 550 million members, is too permissive handling of information of the users. Earlier this month, had arranged for Facebook uproar when the network wanted to help website owners to access addresses and phone numbers of members.
After criticism from users and privacy advocates of the U.S. company's plan for the time being put on hold and announced improvements. Critics had feared that unwary users could agree to unconsciously transfer their data. Earlier this week Facebook is agreed with German data protection officials are on the controversial friends search, which also covered e-mail addresses of members on Facebook and used for invitations.
Facebook pledged to give non-members an opportunity to opt. The privacy advocates, however, failed to move the network to abandon the principle of importing data from third parties
The intruder had left on Sugar's Facebook fan page on this output as a comment and review of the founder. The company on Wednesday confirmed the incident. The hacker had a software error advantage made by a handful of pages to be linked under a false identity have been possible. The error, according to a spokesman now been removed.
The bogus article on sugar's Facebook page fans were encouraged to invest own money into the company, so Facebook would be independent of banks. Also, the hacker a link to the Wikipedia entry left on social business. More than 1,800 readers voted on by the click of a corresponding field that the contribution had fallen to them.
Regardless of this incident, Facebook announced on Wednesday that users can continue to come through secure connections to their side. This was to the risk of network piracy to be reduced, it said in a statement. Particularly useful are secure access, where public computers were used - such as libraries and universities.
"Sponsored Stories" provides new privacy of discussions, the social network provides a new service for new privacy debate: Who mentioned a product or a company of the future can find themselves in the role of an unpaid advertising message. With the "Sponsored Stories" allows advertising clients to highlight messages from Facebook users.
Entries such as "Like" or check-in applications for Places could then be visible as advertising within Facebook profile use of a user, Facebook said in a video. For members it would be such that they would face on their profile page with advertising, which uses its own contact person as advertising figures - in the sense of classical testimonials ("I like brand XYZ," I was looking at coffee-brewer-so "etc.).
It applies the rule. The insertion only see the relevant Facebook friends a user - those to whom the information system is going to received such messages go but easily in the flood of Facebook messages to, so the new offer has Facebook. set itself a target to link the lives of its users in as many areas - and also want to earn advertising revenue.
The course met repeatedly to criticism from privacy advocates, accusing the network with the now more than 550 million members, is too permissive handling of information of the users. Earlier this month, had arranged for Facebook uproar when the network wanted to help website owners to access addresses and phone numbers of members.
After criticism from users and privacy advocates of the U.S. company's plan for the time being put on hold and announced improvements. Critics had feared that unwary users could agree to unconsciously transfer their data. Earlier this week Facebook is agreed with German data protection officials are on the controversial friends search, which also covered e-mail addresses of members on Facebook and used for invitations.
Facebook pledged to give non-members an opportunity to opt. The privacy advocates, however, failed to move the network to abandon the principle of importing data from third parties
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