The Golden Rule of Social Media Security
By Jason – We know that when security advice gets too complicated, most people stop listening. So while you still may be paying attention, let me offer just one “Golden Rule” that will help protect you on any of your favorite social networks: LINKS ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS. Cybercriminals know that we love to click [...]
Facebookers blame Vietnam for blocking site
By Giang Nguyen, CNN Vietnamese government officials deny the accusation. Mr. Dang Anh Tuan, with the government’s Ministry of Information and Communications, told CNN: “We don’t have a policy to block Facebook,” although he acknowledged that Facebook activities are a concern to the agency and that its use by Vietnam’s netizens were monitored. Vietnamese Internet [...]
FTC may enter latest Facebook privacy debacle
by Caroline McCarthy Privacy advocates opposed to new privacy regulations at Facebook are attempting to get the attention of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, according to a complaint filed Thursday on behalf of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and several allied groups. “These changes violate user expectations, diminish user privacy, and contradict Facebook’s own representations,” [...]
Women and Teens Often Regret Online Postings
Females and Teens Most Prolific -– And Regretful -– Social Media Users, Finds Crowd Science Survey; Both Groups More Prone To Agree They Spend Too Much Time on Social Media; Greater Proportions of Teens Also Agree They Reveal Too Much Personal Info December 1, 2009, Silicon Valley, California — Three times as many females as [...]
Facebook backtracks on public friend lists
by Caroline McCarthy It’s been a matter of days since Facebook’s new privacy controls went into place, and the company is already making modifications in response to user complaints that they expose too much information. Namely, the company has made it easier to prevent people from seeing who your friends are. For one, Facebook no [...]
Information you post could be harmful and you won’t even know it
by Doug Hanchard You post a news bit on Twitter which cascades to all your followers. And you also decide to retweet some tweets from the users you follow. You’re now updated on everything you needed from that application and log off. You login into Facebook and do the same thing. Find out what’s going on [...]
Privacy? Since When Does Social Have Anything to Do With Privacy?
by the oracle It’s not that I am a recluse, or curmudgeon, but I simply don’t wish to have many facets of my life examined in public. Not only do I think that they would be uninteresting to the majority, there are things that I would never want revealed. I feel that most people are [...]
Lawsuit Seeks Information on How Government Uses Social-Networking Sites
By Matthew Harwood A prominent hi-tech civil liberties organization filed suit in federal court yesterday to impel a half-dozen government agencies to disclose the policies and procedures that govern how they access, collect, and store information from social networking Web sites. The 8-page lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) “seeks the release of [...]
Social Networking Security Risks
Social networking sites such as Facebook, YouTube, Craigslist and Wikipedia, as well as Web services such as eBay and Gmail, enable self-publishing and high interaction between users through blogs, RSS feeds, podcasts and other technologies. These sites attract huge numbers of visitors, making them extremely attractive to hackers.