January 16th, 2008
Teen Questioned About Facebook Comments:
A 15-year-old student from Tonganoxie, Kansas was pulled from class and taken into police custody over an alleged threat he posted on MySpace. The threat stated he hated school and planned to kill several people. He used the joke defense and it must have worked because police let him go and […]
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January 10th, 2008
Zango strikes back over reported Facebook hack:
Scummy spyware company Zango denies that it’s scummy spyware programs were being passed along through the Facebook app ‘Secret Crush’.
In the end, Fortinet is charging that Secret Crush merely “directed [users] to an external Web site inviting them to download applications such as [Zango’s], which allows for pop-up advertising,” […]
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January 7th, 2008
Facebook Bans Adware from Zango:
The other day I posted about scummy spyware company Zango and their Secret Crush app on Facebook. Finally Facebook put a stop to their shenanigans. According to the article I linked to it was downloaded one million times but I didn’t see no where near that amount listed on the app […]
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January 7th, 2008
Facebook vigilantes identify alleged cat killers:
The Royal Canadian Kilted Facebook Vigilantes have struck once more. I made that name up by the way with heavy influence from Ren and Stimpy.
Anyway this time they’ve published the names of four teenage animal abusers…
In a case of vigilante justice, the identities of four teenage boys accused of […]
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January 3rd, 2008
Facebook hit by adware attack:
The scummy spyware company Zango is at it again. It’s been a while since we last heard about them. So far I’ve posted about them infiltrating MySpace and Orkut so it was only a matter of time before they turned up on Facebook…
Facebook users are being warned about a new application […]
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January 3rd, 2008
Suspect identified, threatened on Facebook:
Facebbok may not be a hotbed of criminal activity like MySpace is but it sure does have it’s share of dumbasses.
16-year-old Mike Woloshyn was fatally stabbed at a house party in Selkirk, Manitoba.
A memorial Facebook group was started so friends and family can post their thoughts and feelings on his tragic […]
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December 19th, 2007
Facebook suing Cdn porn site for allegedly hacking its servers:
Facebook has filed a lawsuit against Canadian porn company SlickCash alleging that they tried to hack into Facebook’s servers over 200,000 times during a two week period in June of this year. Facebook alleges that SlickCash were trying to access users personal information.
The lawsuit names […]
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December 10th, 2007
PSU students mock VT tragedy on Facebook:
So now that we’re past the whole ‘Megan Had It Coming’ situation let’s move on to the latest travesty on the vast travestial landscape that is the internet.
For the sake of argument let’s say you’re a couple of students at Penn State and you’re trying to come up with […]
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November 25th, 2007
Facebook helps Revenue catch villains:
This is a quick article about how the UK’s Customs & Revenue Department, which is the British version of the IRS, has been using Facebook to track down their most wanted.
“Basically some people are very stupid,” he said. Although the criminals themselves didn’t create their own Facebook pages, their friends and […]
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November 23rd, 2007
Meredith suspect arrested after Facebook trace:
One of the suspects in the murder of British student Meredith Kercher was nabbed when he logged into his Facebook.
Rudy Guede, a 20-year-old student with joint Italian and Ivory Coast nationality, was stopped by German police after he tried to board a train between Mainz, in the south of […]
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November 6th, 2007
Students flaunt election sign destruction on networking website Facebook:
A group calling itself the New Saskatchewan Sign Kicking Party appeared on Facebook.
It was described as a party for the youth of Saskatchewan who are upset that they can’t run for office or vote “and for any kids that just enjoy kicking political party signs.”
The site […]
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November 3rd, 2007
Facebook site ripped:
A Facebook group was started for people who enjoy to throw things at prostitutes in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
The site on Facebook, operated by a group called “For those people who have thrown something at those lovely girls on Higgins,” had members listing off items they had thrown at “cheap hookers” working along a […]
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October 31st, 2007
Tesco man suspended over web message:
A man who works as a support line technician for an ISP in the UK is in hot water after leaving a comment and risque photo on a female customer’s Facebook.
A Tesco employee has been suspended after using a customer’s personal details to track her down on the Facebook website […]
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October 17th, 2007
Facebook settles New York child safety probe:
Not too long ago I posted about New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo setting his sights on Facebook because of pervs approaching his office’s fake underage Facebook profile.
Well, Facebook has caved in to him…
The settlement involves no financial penalties.
Under the terms of the settlement, Facebook has agreed to begin […]
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October 17th, 2007
TechCrunch has a great write up on a Facebook clone called Hatebook.
Hatebook looks and functions much like Facebook, except with an evil twist for everything. The color scheme is hellish red, profiles include a section called “Why I’m Better Than You!”, and members can create “Hate Albums” that consist of photos and descriptions of things […]
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