In competition with Instagram and PicPlz, Facebook is planning to roll out its own photo filters for its mobile application sometime soon. Facebook said that they will introduce almost a dozen photo filters, including some that are similar to Instagram like old-style camera lenses and grainy film. Facebook will also try to introduce new styles of filters with the hopes of drawing users away from other photo apps.

After attaining a solid user base of over 750 million users, the social media giant Facebook, has crossed one trillion page views in just one month, making it the first website to cross the milestone.

A new Facebook scam is underway that claims to giveaway free NFL jersey’s to users on Facebook. The scam titled – “Get A Free NFL Jersey!” with a link that leads to a scam website.

Continuing the tradition of celebrating birthdays, festivals and other occasions, Google today are celebrating the 112th birthday of the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, by creating a doodle, which is inspired by his writings.

In a tragic incident, flight Lieutenant Jon Egging’s Hawk T1 jet crashed into a river during the Bournemouth Air Festival yesterday, after which he was pronounced dead. This disastrous incident has got scammers to increase users’ curiosity by creating sensational headlines and promising them to show the crash video on Facebook.

There are several ways how hackers carry out the hacking process. Hackers go through users’ Facebook account and gather publicly available information, and send phishing emails to obtain secured information like credit card number and bank details. Sometimes, they create malware programs that are automatically downloaded on your computer which help them gain access to credentials like email id, passwords and so on. Here are four common methods that hackers use to target Facebook users and try to hack their accounts.

A new hoax message that is spreading on Facebook, claims that a professional hacker named “Faceb Hu” is sending friend requests to users, and is trying to hack their account as well as their email account.

Yet another attempt by scammers to spread a scam message by asking users to “like” and “share” the message on Facebook. The new scam titled – “Online FB Girls with Web Cameras” that links to a Blogger page, trick users to have free sex chat by asking them to “share” the message across the social network.

Facebook’s anti-spam computer algorithm might have a way to tackle scam messages, but that doesn’t stop scammers from creating new scams and spreading them across the network. A new bogus offer is now underway, which offers users a “Free $100 Pizza Hut Gift Card” upon completing a set of surveys.

Many animal rescue organizations and environmental activists, who depend on Facebook to organize events and rescue animals, were accused of posting spam messages. Hence the automated system that identified the content as “spam”, notified the group members and other activists that they have been banned for 15 days from posting anything at all.

Wen-Ai Yu, an employee at Google, announced on her Google Plus profile along with a YouTube video stating that the social network has started the verification process by providing a “verified name” badge to all celebrities and public figures.

In the past, we reported a number of Facebook scams that were spreading like wildfire. Scam messages including “Girl Killed Herself After Dad Posted On Wall Scam”, “Marika Fruscio Spam”, “OMG Can’t Believe Justin Beiber Did This To A Girl Spam”, which were reported earlier are still spreading on Facebook. As Facebook scams continue to boom and spam news feeds, Websense, a web security firm conducted an interesting study that explains how scam messages spread and how they work.

These scammers just don’t allow us to Facebook peacefully. A new Facebook scam is now underway, where users are enticed to click on a message with the title – “Caution Wet Paint – Very Very Funny – LOL”, and contains a link to a bogus website along with a thumbnail that will definitely attract users to click on it.

It looks like the Facebook Security team have started to take scam messages and phishing attacks seriously. They have come up with a 14 pages long document called “Guide To Facebook Security” which will help its users understand the social network’s security features and possible ways to protect their account from threats like malware and phishing attacks. It also includes tips on how users can avoid click-jacking and like-jacking scam messages and scam apps.

The India Against Corruption movement has not just aroused the real world, but also the virtual world. The social media is playing an important role in this movement. We are seeing people changing their profile pictures (DP’s) to Anna Hazare’s picture and posting messages on Facebook and Twitter (and Google Plus also), eventually spreading the news across the world.