Facebook has several millions of users around the world. There are cases when even after some of your friends’ deactivate the account it still appears to be snooping periodically. A new research which was done by Shah Mahmood from University College London and UCL’s chair of Information communication technology, Yev Desmedt, has highlighted the new threat happening in Facebook accounts. They called this threat as a ‘zero-day privacy loophole’. According to their research, once a person deactivates his or her account, later the account gets reactivated without the knowledge of the owner of that account.
This threat is mainly because Facebook does not completely delete the deactivated account. Instead, they put these deactivated accounts in hibernation state that provides the advantage for hackers to make use of these accounts. So, it clearly clarifies that deleting an account Facebook doesn’t mean that the user is completely out of this site. There are possibilities that the site attacker can get into deactivated friend’s information and carries out operations like gathering information and once the process is complete they deactivate that account.
The concept behind this kind of attack is that when a user deactivates his account, he becomes invisible rather than completely getting deleted. Later the attacker makes use of this chance to snoop around their friends’ profile creating spam without leaving any proof for identity. The researchers further stated that this Facebook snooping is commonly used among marketers, detective agencies, governments, hackers, spammers and other criminals. Moreover Facebook does not send any notification to other users when a person deactivates an account. This kind of deactivation attack can be limited, if Facebook notifies users of their friend’s deactivation and reactivation of accounts, adds the researcher.

The Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has decided that he should ask automakers to redesign the electronic devices that allow drivers to access social networks to be disabled while cars are moving. He would like to see that the devices are incapable of being used while the car is in motion, therefore, the car must be in park during the use of these devices. The devices include devices that allow the driver to; manually text, browse the internet, enter addresses for navigation systems, and dialing a ten digit phone numbers.
This is in additional to the Government’s guidelines that were set forth in the year 2010. It goes along side the other rules that are concerning distracted driving. Distracted driving has already claimed three thousand, ninety two victims. It is a cause for concern and they plan to take care of the losses of lives due to carelessness even though the automakers have been doing their part since 2002.

As of today, there are many companies that have chosen to upgrade apps for the Facebook Timeline. A few of the companies on this list are; Buzzfeed, CMT, The Daily Show, Huffington Post, MTW News, and TODAY Show.
There were even sixty applications that were unveiled a few weeks age. Most of the apps that are available today are just upgrades and nothing new. They are fixes and tweaks to apps we already use. Here are a few of the apps that a lost of people use. These apps have actually upgrades into using a social media platform.

• Yahoo News – More than twenty five million people have started using the Social Bar. The age range is eighteen to thirty four years old.
• Rockmelt – Approximately fourteen new articles being added every day. It is driving twenty percent new traffic and new users to that site.
• Digg – Since this has launched, its traffic has gone up thirty five percent.