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Facebook: Spot bug and get paid

Facebook is upping ante on security. The company has paid as much as $40,000 to hackers who detectedsecurity flaws on its site in the past three weeks. The company launched its "bug bounty" programme in July end where it offered to pay for undiscovered security bugs that are responsibly disclosed to the company.

Some forty eight people have successfully identified problems and have been acknowledged on Facebook's "whitehat" site. The company in a blog post said that it has paid one individual $7,000 for flagging six issues and $5,000 for a particularly bad flaw.

Facebook also promised 'hackers' that even if the methods they use to intrude into Facebook systems are not legal, they would not face any legal action. "...we would not take adverse actions against them when they followed the policy in reporting bugs," said the company in a blog post.

"If you give us a reasonable time to respond to your report before making any information public and make a good faith effort to avoid privacy violations, destruction of data and interruption or degradation of our service during your research, we will not bring any lawsuit against you or ask law enforcement to investigate you," Facebook said.

Incidentally, Facebook is not the first technology company to announce such a programme, Google and Mozilla have similar schemes where they reward hackers to identify vulnerabilities in their systems. 

Google launches Hotel Search Tool with Room Price Data

Google has launched Hotel Finder, an experimental search tool, which enables users to define key lodging preferences in hopes of finding the perfect hotel for their travel needs.
Users input their preferred location, dates, price and rating details, and Hotel Finder delivers its top recommendations, in a list or on a Google Map. For the moment, it’s only available in the U.S.
Here’s how Google aims to improve hotel hunting with this tool:

• Finding the perfect location. If you’re not a local, it can be difficult to figure out what area of a city you should stay in. Hotel Finder highlights popular areas on the map results. Google calls this the “tourist spotlight,” and it is used to determine an optimal zone for you to stay in. The shape of this area can be adjusted to focus on a smaller area. This is useful if you’ve got a rough destination in mind, such as along the Hudson River or near Times Square.
• Getting a good deal: Users can choose a price range to search within, as well as compare that hotel’s historical pricing data to its current listing price. Clicking on a hotel will bring up the cost of a room per night and how that compares to previous prices. Google calculates what percentage the cost is above or below the normal. Bargain hunters, start your engines.
• Comparing hotels: Hotel Finder simplifies comparative shopping. When users click on on a hotel, its full details pop up, including photos, Google Places reviews, pricing and other information. You quickly flip through results by using keyboard shortcuts (“J” and “K”) within the list view — a feature also found in Google Reader and Google News.
• Making a shortlist: Users can build a shortlist of hotels they’d like to compare further. These results are marked with a red dot in the Google Maps view, and appear at the top of the page in the list view.

Click on the “Book” button in either view and a list of external options are shown. Clicking on a booking option pulls up that site — such as Priceline or Expedia — in a new tab. (Google isn’t getting into the business of booking hotels itself.)
Take a look at Hotel Finder’s features in the gallery below, test it out and let us what you think about the new tool in the comments below. How does it compare to other hotel-shopping methods?

Facebook Engineers Build Google+ Inspired Facebook Hack

With many asserting that Google+ is heavily Facebook influenced, Facebook engineers Vladimir Kolesnikov, Peng Fan, Zahan Malkani, Brian Rosenthal have flipped the switch and taken inspiration from the novel Google Circles design with Circlehack, a much simpler tool to build Facebook Friend lists.
Right now the only way you can create lists on Facebook is by going to the Friends page, clicking on the Account drop down menu, then clicking on 'Edit Friends' and then again on 'Create a List' and a bunch of other cumbersome stuff

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Facebook adds Send button for closed group

Facebook adds Send button for closed group

Agence France-Presse, Hindustan Times
San Francisco, April 26, 2011

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First Published: 21:43 IST(26/4/2011)
Last Updated: 21:45 IST(26/4/2011)

 

Facebook on Monday began letting members of cozy cliques formed at the social networking service share website links or photo albums without all their friends knowing about it. A “Send” button that lets people share website links with selected cadres instead of all Facebook friends was among enhance

ments being rolled out to a “Groups” feature launched in October of last year.

More than 50 million groups have been created at Facebook since the option became available.
“A year ago, we launched the ‘Like’ button, which gives you a quick way to share the things you find on the Web with all your friends,” Groups team engineer Elliot Lynde said in a blog post. “But there are times when you find something that you only want to share with a few specific people.”
New Send buttons, which were at 50 popular websites and expected to spread to others, let Facebook users share links to pages with fellow members of specific groups or individual friends at the online social network.
For example, someone could send a link to information about a rock concert to roommates and a link to an interesting business journal article to workplace peers.
The Groups feature lets Facebook members set up private online havens for clusters of co-workers, family, teammates, or others.
Enhancements to Groups included being able to poll members on topics ranging from timing of upcoming meetings to locations for social outings. Group members are also being given the option of uploading entire photo albums for sharing.
An added control feature prevents new members from being added without approval of group administrators.

 

Hackers infiltrated personal Gmail accounts, Google says

Hackers in China launched a phishing campaign that obtained access to the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of people, including U.S. government officials, Google said in a blog post on Wednesday.

The Internet company said it was able to "disrupt" the scam but believes the hackers were able to monitor the accounts of Chinese political activists, officials from several Asian countries, journalists, military personal and U.S. government officials. The hackers were able to obtain passwords to Gmail accounts and change settings to have the accounts grant access to other users or have emails forwarded to another account.
Google said the breech was not the result of internal system failures or a security problem and that it has notified victims and relevant government authorities of the account breaches.
Following the blog post, the White House said it had no reason to believe any U.S. government officials' email accounts had been improperly accessed, according to a Reuters news report.
Google listed several steps Internet users can take to better protect their private information. Among them was switching to Chrome, Google's own web browser.
"Review the security features offered by the Chrome browser. If you don’t already use Chrome, consider switching your browser to Chrome," Google said in its blog post.

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Photo: An employee at Google's office in Seoul. Credit: Truth Leem / Reuters

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