Some Intersting Facts About Facebook

Hey Guyz__?? you know facebook is the most popular thing it may be political matter or technical matter or any other aspect of wotld arround us,facebook play its important role some the recent examples are Egypt aspects and Ana Hazzare revolutionary movement . facebook has just boosted up these too movements recently, like this only many of the aspects has been opened by facebook.

Today i am gonna tell you about the important facts about the facebook which we might not be aware of,seemz to be very interting lets have a look:-

1. Facebook was initially bank-rolled by Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal. His $500,000 investment helped launch of Facebook phenomenon.

2. In the beginning, Facebook was almost shut down by a lawsuit. ConnectU, a competitor, claimed Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea for Facebook, as well as the technology to create it. The issue was settled out of court of an undisclosed amount.

3. Today, 400 million people log onto their Facebook profile atleast once every month. 50% are on the website every day.

4. Facebook is an international sensation. 70% of Facebook users live outside the US and the Facebook is present in more than 70 languages.

5. Half of Denmark has an active Facebook profile (2,421,380 people out of 5,484,723 total).

6. There are more than 200 million mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products.

7. Facebook has over 1 million developers and entrepreneurs from mroe than 180 countries.

8. Most popular Facebook pages are:

#1. Michael Jackson
#2. The Simpsons
#3. Facebook Official page
#4. Barack Obama
#5. Starbucks Coffee

9. Monthly amount of time spent on Facebook: 8.3 billion hours.

10. Average number of Facebook friends: 130

11. Total number of active applications: 550,000+ (this figure increases daily).

12. Number of servers running Facebook’s infrastructure: 10,000 (approximately).

13. Amount raised to fund these present as well as future servers: $100 billion.

4. Women aged 55 and up are the fastest growing Facebook demographic in USA.

15. Biggest Myth: Facebook accesses user profile information and stores it, even after the account is deactivated.

Actually this is partly true. Facebook user content, like images, can be stored on other people’s profile, too. After the account is disabled, these images can be seen on their pages.

16. Facebook has become so popular, psychologists identified a new mental health disorder: Facebook Addiction Disorder.

17. In Australia, Facebook has infiltrated the court system:-

1. Court notices can be served through Facebook.

2. A Facebook summon is considered legally binding.

18. Facebook makes money through advertising and viral products. Advertisers use profile information to market specifically to certain users.

19. Top websites by Traffic are

#1. Google

#2 facebook

#3.you tube

20. In 2006, Yahoo offered Zuckerberg $1 billion, which he refused.

In 2009, Facebook was valued at $4 billion.

Today its value is around $8 – $11 billion.

Sources:

Facebook Pages & Blogs (http://www.facebook.com & http://blog.facebook.com)

Online Ph.D. Prgrams (http://www.onlinephdprograms.com/)

Facebakers (http://www.facebakers.com)

Forbes (http://www.forbes.com)

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.com)

Alexa (http://www.alexa.com/topsites)

How to protect your account from Phishing attacks

Phishing is a form of social engineering technique used by hackers to gather sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by posing as a trustworty person/organization. Since most online users are unaware of the techniques used in carrying out a phishing attack, they often fall victims and hence, phishing can be very effective.

With the dramatic increase in the number of phishing scams in the recent years, there has also been a steady rise in the number of people being victimized. Lack of awareness among the people is the prime reason behind such attacks. This article will try to create awareness and educate the users about such online scams and frauds.

Phishing scams usually sends an email message to users requesting for their personal information, or redirects them to a website where they are required to enter thier personal information. Here are some of the tips that can be used to identify various phishing techniques and stay away from it.

Identifying a Phishing Scam

 

1. Beware of emails that demand for an urgent response from your side. Some of the examples are:

• You may receive an email which appears to have come from your bank or financial organization stating that “your bank account is limited due to an unauthorized activity. Please verify your account asap so as to avoid permanant suspension”. In most cases, you are requested to follow a link (URL) that takes you to spoofed webpage (similar to your bank website) and enter your login details over there.
• In some cases, phishing emails may ask you to make a phone call. There may be a person or an audio response waiting on the other side of the phone to take away your credit cards details, account number, social security number or other valuable data.

2. Phishing emails are generally not personalized. Since they target a lagre number of online users, they usually use generalized texts like “Dear valued customer”, “Dear Paypal user” etc. to address you. However, some phishing emails can be an exception to this rule.

3. When you click on the links contained in a phishing email, you will most likely be taken to a spoofed webpage with official logos and information that looks exactly same as that of the original webpages of your bank or financial organization. Pay attention to the URL of a website before you enter any of your personal information over there. Even though malicious websites look identical to the legitimate site, it often uses a different domain or variation in the spelling. For example, instead of paypal.com, a phishing website may use different addresses such as:

• papyal.com
• paypal.org
• verify-paypal.com
• xyz.com/paypal/verify-account/

 

Tips to Avoid Being a Victim of Phishing

 

1. Do not respond to suspicious emails that ask you to give your personal information. If you are unsure whether an email request is legitimate, verify the same by calling the respective bank/company. Always use the telephone numbers printed on your bank records or statements and not those mentioned in the suspicious email.

2. Don’t use the links in an email, instant messenger or chat conversation to enter a website. Instead, always type the URL of the website on your browser’s address bar to get into a website.

3. Legitimate websites always use a secure connection (https://) on those pages which are intended to gather sensitive data such as usernames and passwords, account numbers or credic card details. You will see a lock icon  in your browser’s address bar which indicates a secure connection. On some websites like paypal.com which uses an extended validation certificate, the address bar turns GREEN as shown below.

In most cases, unlike a legitimate website, a phishing website or a spoofed webpage will not use a secure connection and does not show up the lock icon. So, absence of such security features can be a clear indication of phishing attack. Always double-check the security features of the webpage before entering any of your personal information.

4. Always use a good antivirus software, firewall and email filters to filter the unwanted traffic. Also ensure that your browser is up-to-date with the necessary patches being applied.

5. Report a “phishing attack” or “spoofed emails” to the following groups so as to stop such attacks from spreading all over the Internet:

You can directly send an email to spam@uce.gov orreportphishing@antiphishing.org reporting an attack. You can also notify the Internet Crime Complaint Center of the FBI by filing a complaint on their website: www.ic3.gov.

source-http://www.gohacking.com