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Facebook Announces Hacker Cup Competition 2012

Facebook has announced registration details for it's second annual Hacker Cup. The Hacker Cup is Facebook's international coding competition. The first Facebook Hacker Cup was organized in Jan'11. Here you have to solve algorithmic problems to advance in each round.

Activate Facebook Timeline for Non-developer Profiles

Facebook has enabled its long awaited feature Timeline for all profiles. Previously Timeline was only enabled for a developer account. But now all Facebook users can activate this new Timeline feature. Learn here how to activate Timeline.

How a Share-baiting and Self-XSS Facebook Hack Works?

In recent weeks a lot of people are facing social-engineering attacks on their Facebook account, but how many of them actually know the mechanics behind them? In this post I have tried to explain some of those tricking Facebook scam, and their working mechanics.

Send Money to Friends via PayPal Facebook App

Paypal has launched its "Send Money" App for Facebook. Now Facebook users can send money to their friends right from the Facebook account. There will be no extra transaction fee to be charged for any transaction made through the App, though PayPal's regular limits and international fees still apply.

How to Activate Facebook Login Notifications

Enabling Facebook login notifications will alert you each time your account is accessed from a new device. You will also receive text message alerts on mobile if it's number is added to your account.

How to Protect Your Facebook Wall from Spam Links

ShareSafe is a Facebook app which can help you to protect your Facebook wall from spam and malicious links. The app has been launched in beta stage by a security software company F-Secure. It is free to use and works similar as any other Facebook app.

Facebook is Paying For Finding Security Bugs

Try to hack Facebook, and if you are able, Facebook is ready to pay you. Facebook is encouraging its users and security researcher to find any bug in its service. Till now it has paid out more than $40,000 for this. Send them any vulnerabilities you found. If the report checks out, Facebook will pay you a bounty of at least $500. There are certain criteria...

Facebook First, YouTube Second In Top Websites List

With 870 million unique visitors, Facebook is on the top of "The 1000 most-visited sites on the web" list released by Google. YouTube is on second position with 790 million unique visitors. This list has been released by Google Ad Planner. The list orders largest 1000 sites worldwide, based on Unique Visitors (users). This list is updated monthly...