Facebook: Security updates

Last week Websense and Facebook announced a partnership in order to protect users from malicious links in the popular social media site.
But Facebook have a pretty good page dedicated to security issues of all sorts.

Websense Partnership:
Firstly, I’ll cover this new enterprise. This looks like an excellent deal. Obviously the end user should benefit from more trustworthy results from Facebook. Facebook benefits via significant PR. Lastly, Websense dramatically improve their malicious site DB credentials with another mainstream, popular and massive client. They also service Bit.Ly.
The idea is to scan the accessed URLs using the Websense™ ThreatSeeker™ Cloud and if deemed appropriate prompt the user with a warning, where they can elect to continue or ask for more information on the threat detected.
This is the kind of technology that we should now be expecting built into open/social forum/media. It is yet to be implemented and I am sure someone will engineer a bypass but I welcome this.

Facebook Security Page:
Now this is very much worth a look. I was impressed to find that some of my friends’ children had already found the page for themselves and liked the page. Very, very cool. {sic}

I won’t go through every item available but you should visit the Blog, Security Guide and Tips. Obviously the Blog needs to be visited regularly to be effective.
An innovative item is the White Hats section. Here Ethical Hackers can register issues they have found with Facebook Security. Pretty clear and concise and a nice little run down of those that have helped make Facebook safer too. If you’re up to it you can get a $500 reward for being the first to report a problem.
All users shoud have a good look around the Security page, read thorough, and then have a go at the Security Quiz!
References:
Facebook
Facebook Security Page
Websense
Websense Facebook Announcement
Facebook Websense Announcement
Bit.Ly
Bit.Ly Security Announcement

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Facebook: Timeline (Developer Preview)

Ok,
If you want activate Timeline then read the reference at the bottom. But it’s convoluted and you’d be better off waiting until next week (5th October).

This requires Developer status which, unlike Apple, is entirely free but a bit weird.
But what will you get with Facebook Timeline???
Read on…

Facebook: Timeline

So we have a new Facebook Profile coming soon.

The styling has people split, coming rapidly on the news feed changes which although unpopular aren’t quite enough to force people off the service.
But I thought I’d trial the new profiles, called Timelines and see what’s what.

Facebook: Subscribe (Stalk?)

Curious how things change and yet stay the same.

According to Facebook the Subscribe feature is just a natural extension of a ‘hidden’ feature that was already there. But are Facebook making the service too complicated to understand, let alone manage?

Online stalker: could be your nearest and dearest

Who’s watching?

Being stalked by some stranger. Leaving an online trail of destruction amongst your friends and family. Inviting other strangers to your home pretending to be you? Only after 3 1/2 years to be revealed to be your most trusted confidant and potential life partner?