Facebook claims that it has 400 million users. But are they well-protected from prying eyes, scammers, and unwanted marketers? Not according to Joan Goodchild, senior editor of CSO (Chief Security Officer) Online. She says your privacy may be at far greater risk of being violated than you know, when you log onto the social-networking site, [...]

It’s been a long time since it got in the way of the World Series, but the threat of seismic tumult still hangs over Silicon Valley. When earthquakes elsewhere in the world dominate the news, people get a little more sensitive to their own vulnerability in the Bay Area. The ground might really have just [...]

So, what are you up this weekend? And more relevant, do you want one of your Facebook friends to come along? Well, the social network just made that impromptu get-together a little easier with the launch Saturday morning of a new version of Facebook Events, which lets you create an event directly from the “Events” [...]

Facebook has gotten another face-lift. The popular social-networking site has tweaked its home page yet again. This time around, the redesign puts more of Facebook’s core features and settings right on the home page. The goal is to spare users from having to jump from one page to another to access their favorite features.

Facebook has fixed a hole that allowed strangers to see your friends list by accessing the site using a mobile device, the company said on Thursday. “There was an inconsistency between the Web and mobile versions of the site for the friend list visibility option,” Facebook spokesman Simon Axten said in an e-mail.

A small but notable development at Facebook means that if you’re replying to a comment posted on your profile, you can now do so through regular e-mail. A post on the Facebook blog explains it: “These notifications–for comments on such content as status updates, photos, videos and Wall posts–allow you to stay informed about your [...]

Some people celebrated the coming of 2010 with crystal glasses of fizzy yellow liquid. Others used the opportunity to stare into their crystal glasses and see what we have and will become. Perhaps the most pulsating and sad suggestion is that we no longer have any privacy. You burp in Bellingham and someone quickly hears [...]

Social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter can expect more attention from cybercriminals in 2010, according to a new report (PDF) released Tuesday by McAfee Labs. Also at risk are users of Adobe Systems products including Acrobat Reader and Flash.

If you were a social-networking site other than Facebook or Twitter, you were probably struggling to stay above water in 2009. But if you were one of the many services built on top of Facebook’s or Twitter’s platforms, this may well have been a very good year. Some formerly big names in social networking were [...]

You and just about everyone else, it seems, are spending more and more time on Facebook and Twitter, updating statuses and checking friends’ tweets. That’s all well and good, of course, but the amount of personal information that all of you share in real time, and the level of trust implicit with the social networking [...]