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• Facebook security flaw makes private chats public

  Facebook said Wednesday a security flaw allowed many users to see the private chats of their friends.

• Facebook bug exposes private chats

  A bug allowed Facebook users to view their friends' chat sessions on the site, prompting the social-networking company to disable its internal instant-messaging service. The bug also let people see their friends' pending friend requests.

• New threat: Undetectable Facebook scams

  I recently received two Facebook e-mail notifications that set my security spider-sense tingling. Nothing was obviously wrong with the e-mail messages, which said that my friend had tagged a photo of me and then commented on it. But something about a reference to an app named "Who stalks into your profile" just didn't feel right.

• Facebook wants the Web's default to be social

  Facebook has revamped its application development platform to make it possible for the social-networking site and other Web sites to mesh what they know about their end-users and automatically personalize the experience people have online.

• Facebook shuts down Lite site

  Facebook has closed Lite, the stripped-down version of its site aimed at users who wanted a simpler experience than the main site offers.

• Facebook Overhauls Safety Center

  In the wake of high profile cyber-bullying cases -- such as the one that led to a teenage suicide in 2006 -- social networking sites have been tightening the belt on Internet security.

• Judge in Italian Google case receives threats on Facebook

  The Milan judge who convicted three Google executives for allowing the posting of a video showing the bullying of an autistic teenager has received hundreds of threatening and insulting messages via Facebook since the verdict was first announced on Feb. 24.

• Malicious Facebook ad redirected to fake antivirus software

  A malicious advertisement has been found within an application for Facebook that redirected users to fake antivirus software, according to a security researcher.

• Ikea gift card scam takes in nearly 40,000 Facebook users

  A scam Facebook page offering the site's users a US$1,000 Ikea gift card took in nearly 40,000 victims Friday.

• Facebook takes steps to deal with gift card scams

  Like many other Facebook users Jeff Crites heard of the US$1,000 Best Buy gift-card offer last month from a friend, a Web savvy director of social media at a Fortune 500 company.

• Social networking given the spotlight at Demo

  With social networks such as Facebook and Twitter taking up more and more of our time and attention, the Spring Demo conference was loaded with technology designed to make it easier and faster to share and pull together information.

• Facebook users targeted in massive spam run

  Facebook's 400 million users have been targeted by a spam run that could infect their computers with malicious software designed to steals passwords and other data, according to security researchers at McAfee.

• Facebook intros on-the-fly search result suggestions

  Facebook has revamped its search engine so that suggested results drop down from the search box as people type in their queries.

• Online industry unites against Digital Economy Bill

  Google, Yahoo, eBay, Facebook, Orange, Talk Talk and BT have singed an open letter to the Financial Times condemning a bill in parliament that they say "threatens freedom of speech and the open internet".

• Web app developers showered with advice

  Hopeful entrepreneurs and developers attending the Future of Web Apps conference in Miami Beach received a heavy dose of real-world advice from successful peers, including some tips that at first pass seem counterintuitive.