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…
I found this twist to Facebook security settings rather interesting. it all started from a story I read on AllFacebook.com. A quick snippet from their posting: Earlier this week I noticed that one of my friends had made their Facebook profile photos no longer visible. I wasn’t sure if this was because they had put…
The first thing we should mention is that Facebook does have a stated policy that children under 13 should not use Facebook and those children ages 13-18 should seek parental permission. More on that policy may be found here. A brief subset of the policy states: Facebook does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information…
In a BBC News article from October 17th I found the following… then the commentary A man has been jailed for life for stabbing his wife to death over a posting she made on the social networking site Facebook. We first send thoughts to the family affected by this. Physical voilence stemming from comments, postings…
