The wacky Lady GAGA has been dealing with more than a dress made from meat. Her Facebook fan page was hacked, and an iPad themed scam was implanted, in the efforts to scam some of her 45 million fans. Yes, 45 million fans visit her page, so it would only …

Facebook have been in the spotlight recently over privacy concerns and Mark Zuckerberg has admitted some mistakes in the United States saying they would make policy changes to appease the American regulators. The Federal Trade investigation have accused Facebook of ‘unfair and deceptive' practices which can invade user privacy. They …

Facebook, the world's biggest social networking are preparing for a public stock offering in the coming spring which could raise up to $10 billion according to sources close to the matter. The Wall Street Journal reported that the company is hoping that the IPO would value the business at around …

If you follow the mobile sector regularly, you might already be aware of the HTC Status and HTC Salsa which were launched earlier this year. According to All Things Digital they have received information that Facebook themselves might be planning a new phone with a code name of ‘Buffy'. All …

Over the past few days, we have all read stories about horrible pages being delivered by the world's number one social network, Facebook. Imagine our horror when we were sent an example of some highly offensive material. Prepare yourself for the worst. Bloggers like Tom Loftus have been doing a …

Facebook have been battling to get the recent spam attack targeting their members under control. The attack shows images containing graphic sexual acts and violence. They have issued a statement warning their members to be careful and to help prevent their accounts from being hacked. Over 800 million people use …

A new study which was part funded by Microsoft shows that children under 13 are signing up for Facebook, which breaches the federal laws in America, to protect children's online privacy. According to the report, there are millions of underage kids signing up for Facebook, and many parents are helping …

Those of you who like gaming online may like the idea of playing Dungeons and Dragon's via Facebook. This is the latest step in Facebook's strategy of becoming the ‘one stop for all', when online. The first name in roleplaying games is taking another step in its storied pop culture …

Facebook have been under fire this week for tracking logged out users. The company released an 'emergency' patch to remove this tracking feature. It would appear that Facebook claim it is a ‘bug'. Nik Cubrilovic said that he found out that Facebook were loading personally identifiable cookies from logged out …

Facebook have made some dramatic changes to their software, which we covered in detail last week. As with all major software overhauls the public reception has been mixed. Bitdefender claim however that the changes may open up users to more serious, security related problems. Bitfender, an internet security developer said …

There has been a lot of talk around FaceBook this week, after the dramatic changes were announced. With many hundreds of millions of people using the platform every day, will they welcome the changes with open arms? Mark Zuckerberg, the high profile leader of the company showed the new ‘TimeLines' …

Facebook continues to grow, with the latest figures released showing a staggering 1 trillion hits a month for the organisation. This is considerable more than even Youtube, which ‘only' claims 100 million. Behind FaceBook and Youtube, is the ever popular Yahoo.com which claims 78 million page views every month. Facebook …

Irish pop singer Bono, has made a tasty profit from his shares in Facebook, raking in a profit of $800 million in just a few years. His investment firm Elevation Partners, named after a U2 song spent $210 million on Facebook shares in November 2009. This stake in the company …

Well known hacking group Anonymous have threatened to take down Facebook. The posting will concern many people as Facebook is used by many millions of people every single day. The message would indicate that Anonymous are not happy with the organisation due to previous sharing of private data – they …

Facebook have purchased the interactive iPad book maker Push Pop Press, with plans to integrate the ideas and technology behind the company. Push Pop Press published a blog post which said “Now we're taking our publishing technology and everything we've learned and are setting off to help design the world's …

Social networking has been the topic of conversation for many news articles in recent months and when you look at the traffic figures, it is understandable. Facebook for instance was the first website to top 1 trillion page views in a single month. As the topic of money always comes …

George Hotz, also known as hacker GeoHot will go down in history as the catalyst that started the attacks on Sony. His posting of the rootkey for the PlayStation 3, caused the wrath of Sony, who were out to get him in the most public manner possible. Fast forward a …

KitGuru has finally given into peer pressure and created a Facebook page so you can access all our latest news and in-depth reviews from the comfort of your Wall – this compliments our Twitter page.  But we never miss an opportunity to give away some of the tastiest kit on …

Facebook are due to release a photosharing application, according to documents which have been seen by TechCrunch. This new, upcoming application will enhance the experience for the end users, allowing tagging and sharing of photos via Facebook and it also appears to build in functionality which has been integral in …

Facebook monitoring site Inside Facebook have issued a report recently which says that during May Facebook have lost six million users in the USA and 100,000 in the UK. Facebook have questioned the figures. While Inside Facebook show a huge drop in the user count for the social networking site, …

Many parents feel that social networking sites such as Facebook aren't an ideal place for young kids to be spending time. FaceBook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire 27 year old figurehead of the company has a differing opinion on the subject. Zuckerberg told venture capitalist John Doerr that improving education …

An Israeli couple have decided to call their baby after the ‘like' button on Facebook. In Israel, the most popular names are Noa, Tamar and Maya. Parents Vardit and Lior Adler have broken with all tradition in naming their new baby after a Facebook button. The couple who live in …

Google and Facebook have had a long history of intense rivalry, however latest news shows that even billion dollar companies will get down and dirty to try and damage their competitor. Facebook have hired a well known public relations firm to try and get stories planted criticizing Google's privacy policies. …

Symantec recently wrote a report on FaceBook security issues, highlighting that millions of people had personal data at risk. Yesterday Facebook made a statement arguing with the points that Symantec published. Facebook spokeswoman Malorie Lucich sent out an email to ComputerWorld which read “We appreciate Symantec raising this issue and …

Millions of users on Facebook will not be pleased to hear that advertisers and other third party organisations had the potential to get unauthorised access to many Facebook user accounts and profile information, due to a software flaw. This information comes from one of the most respected anti virus and …

The world used the web to watch the Royal Wedding last week and Facebook have reported that more than 10 million comments were posted about the event during a single 24 hour period. The royal wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana was a huge media event across the globe, …

An Australian teenage girl posted a birthday invitation on Facebook, but due to a system hack she received more than 20,000 RSVP's. The 15 year old girl, identified as ‘Jess' had posted her address, home phone number and mobile number for her 16th birthday party on March 26th. She wrote …

Facebook have decided to shut down Breakup Notifier, a popular relationship tracker which is used to monitor the relationship status of chosen friends. The application sent users an email notification whenever one of their friends changed relationship status, meaning that interested parties could make advances whenever someone they liked was …

An Egyptian man has named his daughter after the popular social networking site – ‘FaceBook'. The Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram is reporting that 20 year old Jamal Ibrahim has decided to call his daughter ‘Facebook' in honor of the service that has helped anti government protests overthrow Egyptian dictator Muhammad Hosni …

It was bound to happen, especially after the release of the recent movie, but Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's page was hacked on Tuesday. This is certainly a good indication that the security in place still needs to be improved. The message that the hackers left read “Let the hacking begin: …