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Facebook is an online social networking service founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg.

Facebook is an online social networking service founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg.

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Website seeing my Facebook data?

I recently visited opensecrets.org and was surprised to see a message box in the lower right corner of the window asking if I wanted to talk, and displaying my name. The pop-up says Chat with opensecrets.org in Messenger. As far as I know, I…
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Is this a Facebook self-XSS attempt?

I recently received a Facebook page link, with a weird querystring payload. The payload was in the form: ?\__xts__[0]=68.XXXXXXXXXXX.... where XXX were random characters (looks like base64, but couldn't decode it). I googled for: "facebook __xts"…
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How were Facebook accounts compromised?

I was reading this BBC article about compromised Facebook accounts, and was wondering if anyone knows the technicalities of how they did it? All I understood is that there were some breaches due to the VIEW AS feature. Does anyone have any technical…
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Is there a known Facebook auto-posting bug?

A minister of Singapore (Vivian Balakrishnan) was found to be in breach of electioneering rules, when several posts were made on his Facebook account on "cooling-off day" (September 10th, 2015, the day before the elections). He blamed this on a…
user55743
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Is it normal to receive working SMS verification code from strange number Facebook

I am Algerian. Why when I want to reset my Facebook password I receive a SMS from an Algerian phone number (00 213 ...), and not from Facebook? And why sometimes the SMS contain spelling errors? The six-digit code received by SMS works anyway.
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Left my Facebook logged in - what could my employer see?

I left my Facebook logged in on my work computer (I help with social media and am an admin). I closed the tab without logging out and it was only when I went to go back onto Facebook again that it was already signed in. Will my manager be able to…
Sal
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How Facebook recommend me a friend (no mutual friend)?

For example, Facebook recommends me a friend: We really know each other We do not have mutual friend on Facebook We both have whatsapp and have each other's phone number, but never chat on whatsapp before. Or we are in the same whatsapp group only.…
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Is there a risk involved in befriending fake accounts on Facebook?

I am quite active in several Facebook groups and get a handfull of friend requests from obvious fake accounts every day. Usually these profiles appear to belong to pretty young women who link to some site on their wall that I have to pay to become a…
user30615
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Unsolicited SMS from Facebook

I got the following SMS from number 32665 (FBOOK): "Confirmed! To edit SMS preferences go to m.facebook.com/settings. To turn off all SMS messages reply stop. Reply help for other option. SMS charges may apply" I'm worried someone hacked into my…
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Facebook hacker

My Facebook account was hacked. Searching through security and settings info, Facebook showed that someone was logged into my account from another state and showed some kind of id number. The number contained 8 sets of four digits/letters combos…
Diane
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How do Facebook question pages get your data and what data do they get?

Lately, I've noticed a lot of FB notifications of friends asking stupid questions from other pages. The questions are usually along the lines of "What's the first movie you saw in the cinema?", "What's the next number in this sequence?", "What's a…
Matt
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Facebook sharing data with 3rd party companies

From what I heard, Facebook shared users' info with Cambridge Analytica. Didn't they made it clear in their long terms and conditions (which people tick without reading) that they can do that?
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Tracking hostile facebook user's ip

I've seen most of the solutions to tracking a facebook user through chat; however, since I needed to delete my facebook account because of this person's actions, I can't just start a chat with them. They've done some pretty illegal/awful stuff, and…
Z Whiteman
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Should the access to nearby friends location data and last active time be rate limited?

Facebook let you see nearby friends approximate location data and last active time. It is pretty easy to write a script running 24/7 to monitor, record and plot these info, giving you a complete picture of user activity. Should security engineers…
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Facebook does not obay the Google Play's central opt out of the Ad ID

Moved to: https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/4962/facebook-does-not-obay-the-google-plays-central-opt-out-of-the-ad-id Facebook states in this Terms and services that it respects Google plays advertising id: Yes, the Audience Network SDK for…
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