Facebook is an online social networking service founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg.
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Preventing Voter Fraud on a Social Media Contest
I'm creating a contest that will allow users to login using their Facebook & Twitter accounts and submit votes on videos. My clients concern is that users will game the system by logging into ...
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Facebook API : App Secret - possible misuse
I've recently find out that by simple quick look into compiled code of one of our applications, you can get both App ID (API Key) and App Secret for Facebook API
I suppose that we should really keep ...
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February 7th 2013 Facebook integration error implications [duplicate]
What are the security, privacy, and overall availability implications of the Facebook event (link) yesterday? I was astonished to see site after site being redirected to a Facebook error page last ...
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Storing OAuth and other authentication tokens
We all know that when to store passwords, we should store it with one-way hash such as a variant of SHA, bcrypt or scrypt to prevent plain-text password leaks when the database is hacked.
But what ...
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How can I constrain or limit 3rd party Javascript (*.js) files that can DOS my site?
Many website owners integrate Google analytics, various Facebook or Twitter social media javascript plug ins into their web pages. The problem is that this trust seems to be "all or nothing", meaning ...
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Access Control and Authentication using Facebook access tokens in a webapp
I'm working on a mobile app with a web backend. We'd like to have users authenticate (log in) themselves through Facebook only, so we don't have to store passwords etc. and don't force users to create ...
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Will this work? Revealing identity (facebook) of person who clicks specially crafted link
There is a special Facebook link that will redirect anyone who clicks it to their own Facebook profile they are currently logged in on on their browser. The link goes like this: ...
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Why is a link posted to Facebook going through all redirects and showing info for final page only?
Today I read a post on a Facebook-group about a "problem" with links posted to Facebook.
Appearently when you post a link at Facebook, the sites goes through the redirect(s) that may be on the site ...
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Is update@em.facebookmail.com legitimate?
I'm having a hard time figuring out whether this email a friend of mine got is legit or a scam. The weird thing is there's only one link to facebook.com, which is the one about facebook terms. All the ...
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Facebook Login for Intranet
How safe is Facebook Login? I'm currently building an intranet, for my small company. We're 10 employees, and no risk of them messing up from inside.
But is using Facebook Login safe for this? How ...
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Facebook data visibility to admin staff
I recently had a conversation with a friend in which I told him that everything written on Facebook can be seen by the Facebook admin staff. As a software engineer and database administrator I know ...
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What program could try to reach fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net:443 continuesly? [closed]
Social networking is blocked by K9 Web Protection. The keywords "fb", "facebook" are blokked as well. However K9 continuesly pops up the following:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/FviFb.png
It says ...
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Facebook Login security concern with the javascritp JDK [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Isn’t OAuth, OpenID, Facebook Connect, and others crazy from a security standpoint?
I have some real concerns about how to use facebook login for my wabb-app. I have a ...
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how to secure my login user id and passwords specially for facebook [closed]
i think they hack me with facebook cookies.
i dont get what exactly is going on with me. every time i get the login notification from another ip location.i want to secure my cookies and i wanted to ...
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What data is Facebook's “People You May Know” based on? [closed]
There has been a lot of speculation that some "People You May Know" lists are generated by IP addresses and shared computers, some people have logged into a computer to see that the person who logged ...
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Unsolicited Password Request from Facebook
Today I have received 3 emails to my three different addresses, one with Google, one with MSN, and one with my company. All emails were sent from password+kjdmiikvhppi at facebookmail.com email ...
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Malware on Facebook, what to do after “infection”? [closed]
I've heard about viruses that spread through and target the Facebook platform and I find it hard to comprehend. How is Facebook "complex" enough to run a virus?
On my profile there was a post I ...
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What keeps Facebook information safe from botnets and infected computers?
I've read a few articles which suggest that somewhere around 30-50% of PC's are infected with malware. Supposing that means that hackers then have control of those computers to do as they please (root ...
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Security and privacy in email and other communications [closed]
In the light of newly discovered events like the NSA's PRISM program, I'm really concerned about the privacy & security of my personal emails. Chances are governments already have backdoor access ...
