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Facebook today said it has fixed the bug that allowed a spamming worm to automatically post messages to users’ walls earlier this week.

It seems Apple is getting into the social networking business, God help them. Among the other life changing products rolled out at this week’s semi-annual Apple fanboyfest this week was "Ping," a service that lets you see what music the other 160 million people using iTunes like and recommend.

How to hack your location using Facebook Places through your mobile phone or a geo-aware web browser.

Facebook today announced that chat support for Microsoft’s IE6 browser will be dropped on Sept. 15.

With its new location-based Places feature, Facebook may have just lit the match that will ignite another round of privacy controversy.

Security firm Sophos recently discovered a new clickjacking scam on Facebook that spreads via the social network’s “share” feature and could be costing you $5 a week. The new malware is similar to a so-called “likejacking” worm discovered last May. But instead of exploiting Facebook’s “Like” button, the new scam uses the “Share” feature that posts content to your profile wall where your friends are encouraged to click on it.

Like many scams on Facebook, the “Dislike” button succeeded because people are gullible. Here’s how to not become one of those people.

Security concerns over Facebook have been raised yet again after a security consultant collected the names and profile URLs for 171 million Facebook accounts from publicly available information. The consultant, Ron Bowes, then uploaded the data as a torrent file allowing anyone with a computer connection to download the data.

One hundred million Facebook user profiles containing personal information such as e-mail addresses and phone numbers, are now available as a 2.8GB torrent download. Ron Bowes of Skull Security created the torrent using a Web crawler program, harvesting data from public profiles of users who have chosen not to change their privacy settings.

Facebook is quietly testing a “delete account” option on a small percentage of users, according to a Slashdot post (and The Next Web confirms).