Blog Posts Tagged with "Facebook"
Hacker Hits Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Fan Page
January 26, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"Let the hacking begin: If facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, why doesn’t Facebook let its users invest in Facebook in a social way? Why not transform Facebook into a ‘social business’ the way Nobel Price winner Muhammad Yunus described it? http://bit.ly/fs6rT3 What do you think?"
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Good Reasons to Secure Your Facebook Profile
January 25, 2011 Added by:Theresa Payton
Make sure you have a strong password on your accounts, and Review your Facebook profile to see how much information you share about yourself that could be used to impersonate you - high school attended, pet's name, favorite color, etc...
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IPv6 Upgrade Could Lock Out Millions of Internet Users
January 20, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"IPv6 experts say some Internet users will experience slowdowns or have trouble connecting to IPv6-enabled websites because they have misconfigured or misbehaving network equipment, primarily in their home networks. Corporate users also could experience IPv6 brokenness..."
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Facebook's Third Biggest Advertiser Was a Spammer
January 19, 2011 Added by:Headlines
It seems unlikely that Facebook and Microsoft would be clueless as to the unsavory nature of Make-My-Baby and MakeMeOld's business practices given the level of revenue they generated. Sometimes it just takes a few good bloggers to keep multi-billion dollar companies on the straight and narrow...
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Facebook Faux Paux Reveals Private Data
January 18, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The pop-up now includes a request for permission to access the user's address and cell phone number. The change is subtle enough that most Facebook users are apt to allow the application to access this data without even noticing...
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Today’s Nonsense – The Cloud as a Government Plot
January 16, 2011 Added by:Ben Kepes
Douglass talks about the security of the Cloud and justifiably contrasts security with privacy. Contrasting these two aspects of the Cloud however does not give one the right to jump to the conclusion that private information will somehow be available to Government and non-Government agencies...
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Is Truly Anonymous Web Browsing Even Possible?
January 13, 2011 Added by:Rafal Los
On one end of the argument you must concede that in order to have an acceptable user experience you must be tracked to some acceptable extent, while the other end of the argument would say that we don't want web sites, vendors and nation-states/organizations tracking us and our browsing habits...
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Government Agencies Need to Comply with Directive
January 08, 2011 Added by:Danny Lieberman
Yes – there is apparently a White House directive to keep Wikileaks documents off Federal networks – according to a directive from the White House Office of Management & Budget on the treatment of classified documents...
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DOJ Gets Subpoenas for WikiLeaks Twitter Accounts
January 08, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The DOJ requested subpoenas to access the Twitter accounts of WikiLeaks and several supporters in an ongoing criminal investigation of the whistleblower organization. The information sought includes residential, email and IP addresses, session times, billing records, and bank account details...
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Americans Waking Up to Social Media Privacy
January 07, 2011 Added by:Robert Siciliano
It is evident that without some type of government oversight that the “self policing” done by all those who stand to gain financially by selling our data will continue to spin out of control to the point where privacy will be something of the past...
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Online Privacy: Fighting for Your Eyeballs
January 06, 2011 Added by:Robert Siciliano
Most major websites now install cookies on your computer, which track what you do online. Over time, these cookies develop a profile, which becomes your digital fingerprint, to a certain extent. Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and most major newspapers, retailers, and advertisers are in on the game...
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A Facebook Security Lockdown Guide
January 03, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Whittaker warns that if this is your first attempt at securing your profile, there is a chance that the damage has already been done. Nonetheless, taking a few minutes of your time to implement guide's recommendations could save you many hours of heartache down the road...
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Ten Big Information Security Stories from 2010
January 02, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The ensemble does not focus solely on the pop-security issues that made the biggest headlines per se, but is instead a thoughtful examination of some of the stories that will prove to have the biggest impact and long term effects on the information security field as a whole...
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Top Ten Threats to Your Privacy in 2010
December 29, 2010 Added by:Headlines
Some of the threats came from the usual suspects: criminal syndicates, hackers and all-around cyber miscreants. Other threats emanated from the activities of legitimate industry giants and even government agencies, reinforcing the fact that consumer privacy is under attack on multiple fronts...
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Information Security Trends to Watch for in 2011
December 23, 2010 Added by:Theresa Payton
2010 brought new and interesting things to do on the internet like the free game sensation “Angry Birds”…Wondering what 2011 might bring on the internet?
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How to Safely Use a PC and the Internet
December 23, 2010 Added by:Brent Huston
It’s human nature to fear the unknown. We don’t like to deal with things we don’t understand. Once upon a time, it might have been ok to just avoid what we didn’t know. But today’s world is becoming more and more reliant on machines, computers, and the Internet...
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