In 2 Minutes - Your Facebook Account is HACKED An interesting report last year was on Click (BBC's technology program) addressed a security flaw in Facebook that could compromise users' personal information through the...
*Urgent* wp-content/plugins Security Hole That might be an old fashion hack for some wordpress bloggers but surprisingly I found search result pages showing at least 3.0 Million wordpress blogs suffering this issue.
Going...
Is it legal to use SERP(s) to spy on your competitors? Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs for short) gives more valuable data than you think and actually allows you to spy on any niche competition using simple research techniques...
A cradle of enlightenment thinking and a force for social progress, that's how the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in London, UK have described themselves at which I found very interesting especially after I've spent 2 hours on their website.
What interests me the most is their way of research, reporting and analysis, it puts you straight in front of indicators and facts resulted from different sources and top researches enriched with nice videos, graphics and graphs.
The has many great videos, check them here or watch these two videos I liked:
Finally, the most wanted "button" arrived in Gmail Contacts! One click do the magical task of detecting duplicates in your contacts.
Some of you may ask why duplicates in gmail contacts could ever happen in the first place? Here is how.
If you set contacts to automatically sync from outlook, cell phone, business cards with your gmail then contact records might suffer different spelling of first or last name for the same phone number/address or email of the same person! and it happens to find doubles or even triplets.
What would be migrating an old contact list from a company email/phone/clients records looks like! a Nightmare right? I've seen one...
Posted on : 19-10-2009 | By : Ali Abdullah | In : General
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An interesting report last year was on (BBC's technology program) addressed a security flaw in Facebook that could compromise users' personal information through the use of applications.
At that time BBC's report simply accused Facebook security team for not doing enough security precautions against some malicious third party applications, where the latter pretend to look like a funny quiz or birthday greeting app but they're silently collecting users data to do other acts.
But now a hacker seems done something further and found a way to the social network database!
If true then it means yes,
Your Facebook account can be stolen and HACKED in 2 minutes!
That might be an old fashion hack for some wordpress bloggers but surprisingly I found search result pages showing at least 3.0 Million wordpress blogs suffering this issue.
Going straight to the point, if you are on WordPress you should check your plugins folder security by simply browsing to your-wordpress-blog.com/wp-content/plugins If you get the index of your plugins directory then *congratulations* all your plugins are naked and ready to be downloaded by anyone! Although more than 90% of blogs used free ready-made plugins but some of you might have customized or paid ones that need to be secured.
Here is a screenshot of what your should see...
Doing a simple search you will find some wordpress blogs already fixed their folder but many others with interesting plugins still did not fix it or even still don't know about it.
