Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● July 27, 2010
At last, it’s here. The list you’ve been waiting so long for (at least I have). A major network security company has just released what it regards as the Top 10 risks you can expect if you’re a fan of social networking. Now I have to caution you, so you’re not too disappointed, that the [...]
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Trojans,
Twitter,
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Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● March 31, 2010
People blog. That may sound like an obvious statement, but it is worth repeating. From TheFutureBuzz blog, the statistics from the beginning of 2009 were as follows: 133,000,000 blogs were indexed by Technorati (a search engine specific to searching blogs) since 2002 346,000,000 people globally read blogs (from comScore March 2008) An average of 900,000 [...]
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MySpace,
PII,
prevention,
safety,
security,
smartphone,
Social Media,
social networking,
statistics,
technology,
teens,
TMI,
tweens,
Twitter
Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● December 7, 2009
In our previous posting, we looked at the dangers of Identity Theft for our kids. We asked the tough questions about how prepared our children are, and considered the scary notion of just how vulnerable children can be to fraud, scams, and identity theft. The tips we offered could be applied to any age of [...]
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Matt Hines,
MySpace,
responsibility,
safety,
security,
teenagers,
teens,
Twitter,
YouTube
Posted by: Matt Hines in: ● October 12, 2009
There’s so much being written and said about the risk to personal privacy posed by online social networks such as Facebook and Twitter that some experts researching the issue are already beginning to say that the implications might not actually be as dire as some reports have implied. But while the hype cycle of social [...]
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social networking,
Twitter
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● October 5, 2009
One thing I’ve learned from years in security is that if it makes financial sense for hackers to exploit something, eventually they will. And social networking is not immune. According to security firm Panda, since 2008 a malicious virus called Koobface has attacked and hijacked the pages of thousands of Facebook and Twitter users, and [...]
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● September 21, 2009
For today’s digital criminal, whose bread and butter is information and identities, his workplace is wherever people gather online in larger numbers. Places like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. Another reason why so many thieves are gathering around the crowds is that the crowds don’t seem to be aware or worried that thieves might be lurking [...]
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TMI,
Twitter,
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