Many companies don’t have seasoned social media gurus at the helm, often relying on interns or marketers to present the brand on Facebook, Twitter, and other sites. This sometimes leads to leaks, hacks, and other nightmares. Jaspreet Singh, CEO of Druva, told AllFacebook that the key to preventing these mishaps is almost always education.
We're kicking off our upcoming Social Media Marketing Boot Camp with a special keynote presentation by Ella Chick (left), the digital producer at Anderson Cooper 360°. She'll discuss how the network uses social media for breaking news and leverages social media to draw attention to organizations and causes. Learn more about our program and register here. 
As if Facebook game developer Zynga doesn’t have enough issues to contend with, it may also have to brace itself for a Nov. 5 attack from hacker group Anonymous.
Facebook said an outage Thursday in European countries including Denmark, France, Norway, and Italy was a DNS issue, and the social network was not the victim of hacking by Anonymous.
Hacking has both bad and good connotations when it comes to Facebook, but what about if Facebook users hack their own accounts, with humorous results?
If you are a Facebook fan of the New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants, Chicago White Sox, San Diego Padres, Miami Marlins, Washington Nationals, Atlanta Braves, or Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, you might have been a little alarmed Thursday, and not because of anything that happened on the field. A Major League Baseball employee reportedly hacked into those teams’ Facebook pages and posted funny and obscene messages, ranging from an announcement of a star player’s sex change to a dig at President Barack Obama.
Not long after an Australian bank announced that it planned to offer the ability to send money and pay bills through Facebook, American financial giant Citibank posted an interesting message to its Facebook page, asking fans if they would bank through Facebook, if given the chance.
One of our readers decided to change their Facebook password and encountered a dialog box asking if they changed it because their account was hacked, or if they just wanted to change it.
A supposedly official Anonymous Twitter account said that the hacktivists will not attack Facebook this Saturday, disputing a videotaped threat uploaded to YouTube.
The seemingly never-ending conflict between Israel and its Mideast neighbors has spread to Facebook, as an Israeli hacker who goes by the name of Hannibal posted the email addresses and passwords of 85,000 users of the social network from Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Security vendors always warn that digital threats will become more sophisticated next year. That’s the gist of Zscaler’s prognostication for 2012.
