Firefox: an hacking extension poses problems
A Firefox extension, dubbed Firesheep, is in fact a usurper of cookies. It was downloaded 104,000 times in 24 hours between curious and ... malicious.
The extension allows anyone to retrieve identifiers (then use to connect) to the accounts of users connected via a Wi-Fi not secure a site that does not use secure HTTPS connections. Among them there are many popular sites including Facebook and Twitter
Firesheep was developed by Eric Butler to the attention of major players in the web, including social, on a latent lax in terms of secure identification.
And it worked. Too well, this developer independent American states on his blog that he does not expect that "Firesheep" arrived in the Top 10 most popular Google queries in the United States.
Butler explains that on a wifi network is not secure, cookies may not be encrypted and are easy to intercept. It is therefore easy to copy in their browser and impersonate someone else.
A method that automates the extension and makes it very easy.
If it does not directly have the password for the user, it nevertheless opens the door to a multitude of flight information, refer to conduct banking transactions.
This video explains the workings of this image feat:
My Facebook’s restaurant city home
A random post about facebook restaurant city.
Remember that I've made a post about this game that I've started to play.
I posted a poor screen about my small restaurant :
My restaurant 
Now I'm level 85 and it's like this :
One yeat after ^^
:p good night.
HipHop for PHP – what now ?
6 months ago, Facebook unveiled Hip Hop, with impressive performance gains.
The announcement corresponds to reality, reducing CPU consumption by about 50%. But the team did not stop there, and was successful in optimizing a bit more speed and thus performance. Although the code is open source and begins to be deployed to other PHP projects like Drupal, MediaWiki, phpBB, WordPress.
Scott of Facebook shows the direction of the next estimates as support for FreeBSD and 32-bit environments or as Mac OS X.
Source : Facebook's Engineering Note
Facebook launches location-based service-shared “Places”
In a press conference organized by invitation in the head of Facebook in Palo Alto, California, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the new geolocation service Facebook.
Dubbed "Places", it will enable users to share their social networking sites more easily and discover which of their "friends" are in the same region.
This service will focus on mobile devices from which the members can post and update their geolocation.
The social networking giant has played the cautious this time and included from the outset, control over the visibility of this information adjusted default to "friends only".Users can include friends with whom they are, and the information will be published following the same system used for tagging photos. Once a place "tagged", it becomes permanent on Facebook, although it may be deleted by the user who posted first.
If a trade or business, its owner can reclaim his property.
Zuckerberg did not specify how to control or planned administration in this case.
Facebook officials have explained that a comprehensive API for reading and writing research will be offered to developers.
This service can be integrated with third party applications.
The logo of the service, representing a "4" in a square (in English and Four Square), puts the rumors about the future of the Foursquare between acquisition, partnership or single glance.
Source : Facebook's blog
Yahoo announced an agreement with Facebook
Yahoo and Facebook have announced an agreement between their two sites.
In fact, their services are now linked in some ways. A user with an account on both platforms, and can see the notifications relating to its activities on a site, appear on the other.
In addition, users of certain services offered by Yahoo (such as Flickr or Yahoo Answer), can more easily share their data will be housed with their Facebook friends.
They will also be possible to update both their Yahoo profile and their Facebook profile into a single action, since both pages are linked. Yahoo Profiles will be renamed Yahoo Pulse, and their privacy settings (about fashionable!) Will be improved and simplified.
Source: Press Release
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