A recent rash of hackers have decided that emailing you and asking for money is just not the way to go. Now, hackers are getting into the social networks and assuming identities of others and asking for money. One of the common ploys now is to pretend that the person they are imitating is out…
We often give you insight into controlling the data you share across the networks and teaching the kids on what should be considered good sharing and bad sharing. This falls into reputation control. Apparently some apps were pulling your credentials and starting to spam your contacts with phishing sites. Trend Micro are reported to have…
The San Francisco Chronicle just ran an article "Facebook sued over privacy concerns " outlining who and why they are being sued. I can summarize the entire thing in a couple sentences: User joins a site in the past, present or future. User does not read any of the privacy or Terms of Use data…
One of the intimidating features and daunting tasks is understanding all the options and settings. We picked photos this time to show how you can easily manipulate who can see photos of yourself. Even to the point of excluding or including specific people. This should be important to parents as they could be their child’s…
Attempting to digest Facebook privacy in one setting/posting would be a defeatist move. So we are giving our overview of the settings in the sections as presented by Facebook. Profile privacy settings When you first create an account, Facebook takes some privileges with default settings. The number of options for each area is the daunting…
