While doing some research for an upcoming seminar, I ran across the Department of Justice report on cyberstalking. Unfortunately it has not been updated since 1999. While the posting itself is old, the changes in ways to obtain, view and find information has grown at a more rapid rate. Protecting your personal information should be…
A recent article on TheNextWeb spotlighted a possible data leak for Facebook Notes to search engines. The original report showed how using a simple Google query would bring up Notes from Facebook even with profiles set to private. Facebook soon responded that yes, the user profiles are private, but the Notes section for the users…
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…
