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Calm Down Dear! It’s Just Another Facebook Hoax!

Yesterday was a dark day. A fake Facebook copyright message claiming to protect users’ media has once again gone viral on the social network. The Facebook hoax originally serviced in 2012. The message claims to put copyright protections on a user’s posts after they share the status update. It’s obviously doesn’t, however people’s newsfeed’s were flooded with the…

Social Media Review 2014

With 2014 coming to a close and some of the social networks currently celebrating new milestones, let’s scratch a little deeper and see what the major players have achieved this year and where they stand in the current social landscape. Social media usage continues to rise, although much of this growth relates to the increased…

Search: Facebook Posts

Now rolling out in the US for iPhone and Facebook for desktop, Facebook has launched it’s all new and improved Facebook Search. Until now, if you wanted to find that witty status you shared a few weeks ago or that post where your friend wrote a cookery recipe to your timeline; it was a case of good luck with…

Dark Social turn’s out to be Facebook

You may have heard of the phenomenon called ‘dark social’. It’s a term originally coined back in 2012 by Alexis Madrigal, whom whilst with The Atlantic; noted that despite having the ability to track and measure every detail of user traffic, there was a rather big portion that actually couldn’t be identified. Back then, Madrigal…

Poodle SSL Vulnerability

I know what your all thinking , another issue with SSL. This just highlights how important this software is , it is essential if anything is to be kept private such as many forms of e-commerce. The POODLE vulnerability is a weakness in version 3 of the SSL protocol that allows an attacker in a…