Friday, July 9, 2010 at 11:46PM I don't know about you but I am impressed that General Larry (Pants on the Ground) beat out LeBron and Jigga.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/09/facebook-most-popular-the_n_640965.html
Monday, May 24, 2010 at 3:17PM According the Gizmodo:
We know that Facebook staff's been meeting to discuss user privacy, but it appears that these meetings might not be the happiest of events. It actually seems like Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg might be forced to rethink some past decisions.
According to the WSJ, Zuckerberg has frequently "over-ruled employees who argue Facebook should make more information private" in the past, but now he might have to finally suck it up and provide users with the privacy tools they're demanding—the ones some Facebook employees have previously pushed for.
Either way, while the Facebook privacy drama probably won't end anytime soon, we should at least hear about the results of these meetings "as soon as the end of the week." [WSJ via Business Insider]
Friday, May 14, 2010 at 3:26PM 
Today, Facebook is having an emergency meeting to discuss their site's privacy problem. But these instant messages, supposedly sent by CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Facebook's early days, suggest that user privacy may have always been an afterthought.
The messages were uncovered by Silicon Alley Insider, who is no stranger to excavating the unsavory details of Facebook's past. They read:
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks.
As SAI points out, there's no context for Zuckerberg's remarks, if they are indeed his, and there's no way to tell if these comments reflect how he really viewed matters of privacy when he was building Facebook.
But the allegation that Zuckerberg once used information from Facebook's logs to hack into Harvard Crimson reporters' email accounts certainly doesn't help his track record on this sort of thing, and Facebook's official response to the messages doesn't deny that they came from Zuckerberg:
The privacy and security of our users' information is of paramount importance to us. We're not going to debate claims from anonymous sources or dated allegations that attempt to characterize Mark's and Facebook's views towards privacy.
While the vast majority of Facebook's users might not think twice about what the site does with the information they post in their profiles, the contingent that is concerned is growing in size and becoming increasingly vocal. Yesterday, an open source Facebook alternative called Diaspora was lavished with attention and subsequently received a deluge of funding—it has now raised over $100,000. And even though these messages don't paint the whole picture by any means, I wouldn't be surprised if they drive a lot more funding in Diaspora's direction.
http://gizmodo.com/5538489/19+year+old-facebook-ceo-didnt-take-your-privacy-seriously-either
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 4:53PM A Facebook game with more than 9 million users has been caught serving ads that try to trick viewers into installing malware.
Hundreds of users of Farm Town have reported seeing the ads, which falsely claim the user's PC is infected and can only be fixed by buying and running the anti-virus software being advertised, according to this forum. Farm Town developer SlashKey warned users to ignore the ads but failed to suspend third-party adverts, much to the anger of security experts.
"It may not be Farm Town's fault that a third-party advertising network is serving up malicious ads, but doing anything less is surely showing a careless disregard for the safety of its players," wrote Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at Sophos. "Until the makers of Farm Town resolve the problem of malicious adverts, my advice to its fans would be to stop playing the game and ensure that their computer is properly defended with up-to-date security software."
Rogue AV software like that advertised to Farm Town players has proved to be a bane to computer users. Such titles generate billions of dollars per year in revenue to fraudsters, while stealing credit card data and often planting backdoors on end-user's machines.
Over the years, The New York Times, MySpace, and scores of other sites have been caught serving ads that try to trick viewers into believing their machines are infected, often by displaying mock hard drive scans with a list of malicious files detected. The ads are usually the work of fly-by-night advertisers who trick advertising networks into distributing the sham banner ads.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/12/farm_town_malicious_ads/
facebook in Virus/Malware Sunday, April 11, 2010 at 9:59AM Facebook has many security flaws. The highest risk are the users themselves. However, the company has a few grey marks.
http://theharmonyguy.com/2009/10/09/the-month-of-facebook-bugs-report/
