In today’s Quick Hits, we look into Facebook’s new “panic” button, the latest in Google’s Street View controversy, a bug in Facebook’s log-in page, and why Teri Hatcher probably won’t be adding more photos to her social networking profiles anytime soon.
Facebook’s “panic button” has been used to report suspicious online behavior by more than 200 Brits. The app was introduced to the social network in July, following the murder of Ashleigh Hall, a 17-year-old who met her killer on Facebook. Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, who developed the button, says that suspicious behavior reports have increased seven-fold.
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The Google Street View controversy keeps growing and growing. This week, Google announced that it would introduce its Street View service for the country’s 20 largest cities by the end of the year. In response, Germany is considering a law that would place stricter boundaries on the mapping service and similar apps. According to an Interior Ministry spokesman, the German cabinet plans to meet next week to issue an opinion on the matter.
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Facebook has fixed a bug that could have been used by spammers to engineer phishing attacks on users. When a user entered the wrong password on the log-in page, the “Incorrect Password” page included their full name and profile photo. This could have been used to link e-mail IDs with FB users. Secfence Technologies’s Atul Agarwal says, “Facebook users have no control over this, even as this works when you have set all privacy settings properly. Harvesting this data is very easy, as it can be easily bypassed by using a bunch of proxies.”
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Teri Hatcher is regretting the photos she recently posted on her Facebook. To prove she hasn’t had Botox in her face, the Desperate Housewives star uploaded 9 candid snaps of herself for her fans to see. Unfortunately, Hatcher didn’t realize that international press could get a hold of them until it was too late. She says, “Honestly, I am so behind the game on Facebook. I didn’t even know that media could pick up pictures and distribute them all over the world.”
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