Hitwise reported that Facebook had surpassed Google, which became the most popular site for the United States.
According to the results of calculations performed until last March 13, 2010.
“Facebook.com recently also managed to reach rank # 1 on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year. achievements are also achieved at the weekend on 6 and 7 March, “said Heather Dougherty (analyst Hitwise).
“Visits to Facebook.com experienced jumps in the last week of 185% compared to the same week in 2009. Meanwhile, visits to Google.com increased 9% during the same timeframe, “added Dougherty.
Meanwhile, the latest statistics ECommerceNews noted that development is “major victory” for Facebook. “Choosing a social networking site pastnya number one will affect the number of advertisers and investors. This is both a direct effect on increasing revenues, “said Hitwise through an official blog.
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Facebook is more popular that Google ???
Monday, March 22nd, 2010Trial Facebook New Layout
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Facebook back to make changes. This time it happened on the homepage (main page). What are the changes? With new layout design, Facebook moved the navigation elements that had previously been in the menu “Application” to the sidebar to the left of the page. In addition, a list of online friends who had previously been in the bottom right, is now a move to the left sidebar (just below the Application). Section warning (alert) if any request friends, etc. that usually appear on the right, now moving into a pop-up at the top left. In this new design, Facebook is also the experience for users, such as Traffic to send messages directly from the homepage using the pop-up window. This certainly saves time from having to use a separate page. Search for the previous section on the corner there will be over, now located on the left a little to the center with a larger field. Meanwhile, the Filter News Feed and Friend List is located on the left has been eliminated now. The reason, ration Friends List has now been used for a list of online friends. Not only that, the News Feed and Live Feed has now been changed to Most Recent and Top News. Unfortunately, not all Facebook users can sample brand-new design of this homepage. However, Facebook will continue to develop into a larger scale.
Facebook User become target of Bredolab
Friday, February 5th, 2010
Be careful if you receive an email from admin Facebook. Note the email subject New Login System, Facebook Account Update, Facebook Update Tools or Facebook Password Reset Confirmation.
Message size is approximately 105 kb contains the reference that users take through updates to the Facebooknya account. However, when the button is updateusernamepassword would be targeted. clicked, the user will automatically led to a fake website Facebook. There, and
Bredolab viruses, such as fake e-mail virus that causes it. As discussed above, a false website address a variety Facebook. For example: http://www.facebook.com.xxxxx.eu/globaldirectory/Lo ginFacebook.php? 15842706915434780596515904059018022 54672004589860384285 ref = & email = xxxxxxx@xxxx.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it. xxxxx here is a random character.
Curious about the contents? Site includes email content allfacebook the trap:
Vguysville hey,
Because of the measures taken to provide safety to our clients, your password has been changed.
You can find your new password in attached document.
Thanks,
The Facebook Team
When the user fills out a username and password, will appear a new page containing the download link with the account update tools updatetool.exe name. This is the actual file is a virus / trojan that will infect your computer.
This virus attacks only Windows operating systems. Therefore, files created with the name C virus: WINDOWSsystem32sdra64.exe will be hidden, not even easy to remove, even though the user is displaying hidden files though. In addition, also created another file named C: Windowssystem32lowsec, local.ds, user.ds, user.ds.lll. hidden and not easily removed.
To prevent easy. Carefully before opening an email and delete the email with the subject as mentioned above.
Beware, Trap at Facebook and Twitter
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Sixty per cent of businesses claimed that Facebook is a risk social networking site, as revealed by the security vendor, Sophos.
Meanwhile, a similar opinion was also expressed by Kaspersky Labs pointed Microblogging site Twitter, which was rising-a second networking site after Facebook risky.
Sophos did a survey of 502 IT professionals. The result, business was seeing a lot of malware and spam floating around the virtual realm.
The Sophos report titled “Security Threat Report: 2010″, mentions that as many as 33 percent of IT professionals to choose blocking Facebook for productivity reasons, while 21 percent of survey respondents reported that they or a network of friends who have received malware via social networking sites will lost control of the site access. As many as 72 percent of the company also believed that employees who often had a tendency for Facebook ria could endanger the company’s business.
Another horrendous thing to come from Twitter. Dmitry Bestuzhez (Senior Regional Researcger Kaspersky Labs), reveals that Twitter has been offered for U.S. $ 1000 by a hacker forum. “Tweet can contain URLs. Well, most of the users trust to click the link in the tweet. This is certainly a trap for many people to act criminal. The more follower, the more the risk of malware infection, “explained Bestuzhez. This is where the danger. Sendible facility could be misused in the spread of malware. The reason is assumed Twitter can be used to infect other malware to your account.
Opera: Facebook Mobile Increase More Than 600 Percent
Monday, February 1st, 2010
Browser company, Opera, released the fact that mobile phone use to visit the increasingly popular mobile Facebook. “Facebook’s unique visitor increased by 619 percent during the year 2009, exceeding the previous site VKontakte become the most popular networking site for Opera Mini users,” explained Opera. VKontakte a social networking site came from Russia. It also added that Facebook has become a social networking site most visited by the mobile web. Meanwhile, Microblogging sites, Twitter has 2859 percent increase in visitors during the year 2009. Data taken in December 2009, reveals the fact that more than 46.3 million mobile subscribers around the world using Opera Mini browser. Figure has risen 11 percent and more than 159 percent when compared with the data in December 2008. from these data clearly show that users see more than 20.7 billion pages last month (December 2009), up 10.1 percent from November. Opera Mini users in general use more than 315 million megabytes of data per month, with a growth of 206 percent of data traffic in December 2008. According to Opera, there are 3 sites that are predicted to increase, ie, Facebook, Google, and the BBC. Meanwhile, the Amazon, the site online sales of digital devices will also be entrenched in the top ten most popular position.
Beware,Facebook still become a target of spammer
Friday, January 29th, 2010
The voluntary researchers Project Honey Pot based, warned that spammers are likely still will increase its efforts to ensnare the Facebook users through an evil scheme.
“Spammers are in it will try to build the confidence of Facebook users that can later be slid smoothly into Facebook,” said Matthew Prince (co-creator of Project Honey Pot and Criminal Law Professor John Marshall Law School in Chicago) via Times Online .
Prince explained again that the methods they use may be in the form of ancient methods and predictable, such as pretending to be a prisoner in jail and needed the money as collateral. According to Prince, cyber crime can be done by accessing the online identity using a password hacking process variant word every day in just a few minutes. In addition, the explosion of Facebook applications is also a fertile ground for cyber criminals to take advantage, how to send a link that will direct our friends to the fake link.
Meanwhile, anti-virus company McAfee also offers McAfee anti-virus to Facebook users for free. The number of malicious bots are achieving four-fold since 2004, with nearly 400,000 active bots engaged in criminal activities during the past 2009 years.
Threats at Facebook,Twitter and iPhone
Monday, January 25th, 2010
In the year 2010, the security threat for users of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter estimated more frenzied. , Security vendor McAfee spoke. “In 2009 we saw an increase in attacks on web sites that web users use ,” explained one of his spokesmen.
“The number of Facebook users who reach 350 million to make us believe that the year 2010 will carry a security case that the trend is increasing,” the spokesman said. “Writer malware likes and pleased to join the social networking sites, even the activities to its hot spots will continue in the year 2010,” he explained.
Restrictions on Twitter system which only 140 make the user rely service URL shortcut, like bit.ly, tinyurl.com. This step is then used by the attacker as a ruse for the user.
“This trick will play a more dominant role in 2010. With this trick, they can direct users to a malicious link that is disguised” according to a report written by Dmitri Alperovitch, Toralv Dirro, Paula Greve , Rahul Kashyap, David Marcus, Sam Masiello, Franois Paget, and Craig Schmugar of McAfee Labs.
The success of Apple’s iPhone is also a part of diversity trigger the application. The latest facts, Facebook already offers more than 350,000 active and Apple applications App Store recently reached 100,000 target. As a result, many users blindly distribute the application. Extensive land also facilitate identity theft. User expectations will increase 2.0 Web services also triggered many false services that are hidden is set to steal data
Facebook will spawn new feature
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Through a blog posting on the Facebook developers on Thursday (21 / 1) yesterday, mentioned that in the next few weeks the biggest social networking will soon spawn new feature called Dashboard.
Launch Dashboard is one way to organize Facebook Facebook Newer home page, point to remove dozens of former third-party applications that have installed by the user. In other words, users can install games to their profile tab separately. Applications which the user will be grouped into the top to display news update, which reads “It’s your move in your Scrabble game against Bill Gates.”
Not only that, users will also be shown any applications that have been used by friends who joined in her Friends List. One set of “counter” will be displayed on the left side bar which is showing that members have to update, as well as notification of any application that is used by that individual.
Currently, the developer is allowed to access the ‘sandbox’ where they could use to experiment with new formats and see the difference. Well, we just wait on
Facebook Make An Automatic Update Tools to Twitter
Sunday, December 20th, 2009
Facebook and rival social networking sites, Twitter has been working together to make a new step to help users to share information. Facebook is the top social networking sites, this week began testing a new feature designed to help post the status of the network and also automatically appear on Twitter. This was conveyed by Malorie Lucich, a spokesman for Facebook, which has been confirmed, Wednesday (16/12), although he did not say when this feature will be officially launched.
This improvisation can help users share information after the Facebook privacy settings to change the site. Facebook and Twitter movement is then still lead to pro cons for the lawyers who ultimately critical of Facebook, because most of them have the status of ‘unfriend’ on Facebook.
Facebook’s privacy settings have been incorporating new privacy options and make it a group in a single interface. Facebook users can now build a privacy setting for each item they post on the site, by using the drop down menu.
