Facebook introduces the "bgsound" to e-mail letters

You thought that the pictures of 1x1 px inserted only in spam and advertising? No, it turns out, and serious company Facebook also dabbles in small espionage. However, they are more creative and together with hidden image placed the body of the message and even the . If the user opens a letter in the web interface or program with the display of HTML, this object sends a message to the Facebook server.

One of the users accidentally found in a letter from the company Facebook the following code:

As is known, the was originally intended for implementation in the document of the sound file that is played as a background music. Now no one uses the for its intended purpose.

It turned out that code like Facebook inserts in each letter. As a sound file for the "background music" specify a script on the server Facebook, which fixes the reference to him, and writes the results to a log.

This technique is not something special or prohibited, tracing letters used by many companies for the purpose of marketing is still the 90-ies. So they can analyze the effectiveness of the mailing list, to compare the effectiveness of different options for the header and calculate the exact CTR, i.e. the number of кликнувших on the link in relation to those, who opened the letter.

Moreover, there are 32 other way, how can you keep track of the message recipient. Want to send yourself a test message and check, whether the sender of some result, you can use the service Required Privacy Tester. So you can see how good job your mail provider to the blocking of "espionage". For example, Gmail blocks all, without exception, these types of "tracking" of the content, but the misses the and so that users of the mail service vulnerable to surveillance.

Although such methods of surveillance are considered to be normal among marketers, but all the same rules of network etiquette requires that notice of reply was sent with the consent of the user. Although, who in our time to observe netiquette? The twenty-first century in the yard - people make money

The attack on Facebook through Chrome-extensions

"Consider carefully before you install the extension for Chrome!", - with such appeal addresses the audience Brazilian expert Kaspersky Lab. He found pernicious program, which captures the user account of the social network Facebook, masquerading as Chrome-extension. The most surprising, that a malicious extension (Trojan program Trojan.JS.Agent.bxo) spread through the official Google Chrome Web Store under the name "Adobe Flash Player".



At the moment of checking the expansion of installed nearly a thousand people.

After installation, expansion is able to perform any actions in the profile of the user of Facebook, in accordance with the instructions, which downloads, together with the special script.

The first way, the script спамит on the page the user, inviting users to install this extension.

Next, he tells the browser to put the Like certain pages of the list.

This part of the circuit of monetization, which includes an online shop on sale of "лайков". Their value on the market is about $27 per 1000 pieces.

Google Drive starts with 5 gigabytes

The rumors about the launch of a free service of the cloud hosting Google Drive (GDrive) go with 2006, but now they are closer than ever to embody in a reality. Is called even a specific launch date - April 16, and a certain amount of free disk space in the cloud, which will receive each user of five gigabytes.

However, on the scale of Google five gigabytes - very little. On the market there are services that offer more space, take at least the same Microsoft SkyDrive (25 GB). Output on the market with such a mediocre proposal is not like Google. If you remember, as they ran postal service Gmail the first of April 2004, that all thought it was an April fool's joke, because one Gigabyte of free space in 50-100 times more, than at competitors, seemed to be something totally unreal.

The current rumors about Google Drive based on the leak of a screenshot, which is found on the site drive.google.com, here it is.

In addition, the imminent appearance of the new service is confirmed by changes in the reference sections of the site Google, for example, in an article on the joint editing of files to Google Docs. At some point in this article, see the mention of Google Drive.

Now they say that 5 GB of free will each, and additional space can be purchased for $5 a year for every 20 GB.

True if the rumors were, or are they for the tenth time will prove to be groundless"we will find out very soon, just two weeks.

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Facebook users have suffered from network worms

Company ESET reported that many users of social network Facebook have become victims of the worm Win32/Yimfoca।AA and Win32/Fbphotofake.

Network worms Win32/Yimfoca.AA and Win32/Fbphotofake headed a rating of threats in Austria, Italy, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. They use to attack chat in Facebook and can be introduced in Skype, MSN and Yahoo Messenger.

In addition, Win32/Yimfoca.AA can download and run other malware, available online (including fake antivirus), change the security settings and disable Windows firewall. Win32/Fbphotofake uses social engineering techniques, spread with the help of spam messages in the social network Facebook.
In the ESET advise users of social networks to be very careful not to open suspicious attachments and emails from unknown authors, and do not go to the bad links.

Who has deleted you from their friends list on Facebook?

Spammers are invited to millions of Facebook users to take part in the fictional event, the real purpose of which is to gain profit from fraudulent online survey।

Sophos warns of Facebook users that circulating in the social network of the invitation actually report about the error of the survey. This poll is called "Who deleted You from their friends list?". In it have taken part more than 165000 people, and another - you just think of it! - 10.3 million users are on the waiting list, before deciding whether to participate.

In the section "Details" crooks left instructions and a brief description of the event. It leads unsuspecting Facebook users to websites of online surveys, for participation in which fraudsters get money. In some cases, users on these sites asking the mobile phone number then this number will be added to незаказанные expensive premium services.

We encourage our users to Facebook not to take suspicious invitations and always think twice before clicking on any link, collected from the social network.

In Facebook via Skype

Has just published a new version of Skype is integrated with Facebook। The main innovation: with contacts from social networks you can now communicate directly from Skype.

In the menu of contacts, a new item, allowing you to call and write directly to friends from Facebook। In addition, you can now read the news and comment on it directly from Skype.
All other improvements Skype 5।5 a cosmetic nature: new icons, new type of window in the conversation। Nice, but not necessarily।

Facebook may acquire a copyright on the word "Book"

For example, in the fifth section of the current "Regulations on the rights and duties of" the largest virtual sotsseti Facebook, there is an item number 6, which prohibits the owners of accounts "use our trademarks (including Facebook, Facebook logos and F, FB, Face, Poke, Wall and 32665) or any marks, similar to them to the extent likely to cause confusion, without our written permission. "Apparently, this is about commercial purposes - the item does not contain explanations on this matter.

Meanwhile, lawyers of the sotsseti actively trying to register the trade mark "Book" and add to the list of forbidden to its users the words of another. Attempts lawyers have already found reflection in the developed now the new "regulation on rights and obligations", where in the sixth paragraph of the fifth section of the designation "32665" (text command to update the profile) has been replaced by the "Book ".

If the trade mark "Book" will be registered and a new "Regulation" is accepted, then a large proportion of commercial projects, containing, at least in its title, the word "Book ", "for example, it may be sites - will be from the legal point of view is not entirely legitimate. It is no secret that the vast majority of those who are engaged in commercial projects, the more virtual and has an account on Facebook. On the other hand, in the Global network are functioning smoothly thousands of sites with the words "Face", "Wall" or "Poke" in the name and on attempts to Facebook close them are not heard. The point, of course, in the legal niceties of...

Download "the new Regulation on rights and obligations" Facebook here.

A giant QR code Facebook can be seen from space

Recently employees of the head division of the largest sotsseti in the world have moved to new headquarters in the city of Menlo Park, California, USA। On request of the founder of the sotsseti, Mark Zuckerberg, they should have noted a housewarming some unusual way, that, in the end, resulted in the placement on the roof of the new building of a giant QR code with total area of 13 sq.m.

A giant QR code Facebook can be seen from space
Recently employees of the head division of the largest sotsseti in the world have moved to new headquarters in the city of Menlo Park, California, USA. On request of the founder of the sotsseti, Mark Zuckerberg, they should have noted a housewarming some unusual way, that, in the end, resulted in the placement on the roof of the new building of a giant QR code with total area of 13 sq.m.

The author of the project became one of the servants Facebook by the name of mark pike (Mark Pike), who, along with about two dozen other employees engaged in its embodiment during the whole day. In this case, to verify the correctness of a "pattern" they used the camera tied to the radio-controlled model of the helicopter.

The QR-code, due to its size, visible even from space, but at present he is idle, as a reference in a web page http://fbco.dewhere there is nothing in the below image, yet one link FB QR Code on Facebook, which leads on Facebook-page dedicated to the project, and... the "Like". The image, by the way, also leads to a dedicated project Facebook page.

As writes the pike in his post on Facebook,as soon as a giant QR code will be indexed, it will become visible on the satellite maps and will be "funny" content will be lead to a page with puzzles, carry on any video, etc. When this happens, Mr. pike while not specified.

In Facebook stood up for the applicants

Perhaps, everyone, who at least a couple of times over the past few years trying to get a job, I heard from the HR-Manager of the issue of availability of accounts in Facebook, "Live journal" and other social services. For someone this question may seem not very pleasant, but he is, in fact, is in the framework of the law and, relatively, in the framework of morality. Why not tell about the demand of some employers to pass the selection applicants provide passwords from their accounts.

This is done it is clear for what purpose, but may not please applicants, even successful. As a result, in the world (both real and virtual) have periodically scandals associated with the employers'requirements on the transmission of passwords, and the administration of that or of the other social service receives a huge number of letters from their perturbed users. For Facebook, as for the largest sotsseti, these problems are most relevant, and its leadership was forced to accept the decision - 23 March in the Facebook blog, there was a message, in which he categorically condemns any requirements on the granting of the password. That's what, in particular, is spoken in the message:

"If you're a Facebook user, you may in no case should not send the password from your account to other people, to grant someone access to your account or take any action, which may jeopardize the security of your account or lead to interference in the privacy of your friends [Facebook]... We do not think that employers shall have the right to require potential employees to provide passwords from their accounts, as we believe this requirement is unacceptable. But this requirement may cause damage and the employer... for Example, cause the charge of discrimination, if the employer (who had received the access to the information of the applicant - Chip online Russia) won't take then on the work of this man."

In addition, the administration sotsseti noted that because of the extremely serious attitude to the personal information of users, to ensure its confidentiality is ready to resort to various means - until the involvement of the law enforcement services.

The opinion leaders of the Facebook regarding the inadmissibility of the transfer of access to the accounts of the social services is shared by some of the policy. For example, in some States of the USA are planning to introduce laws that prohibit employers to request from the slave password to an account on Facebook and other similar networks. In turn senators from the Democratic party of the USA Richard Блументаль and Charles Schumer (Richard Blumenthal, Charles Schumer) initiate the verification of the legality of the cases, when American employers tried to obtain passwords to Facebook from its competitors. The result of this check may be the adoption of the United States has a Federal law on the inadmissibility of such actions.