Internet Threats Blog
The topic has been trending since it exploded in March. There are numerous stories of companies who have coerced their employees (or future employees) onto giving them access to their personal Facebook accounts. In the U.S., where this “trend” has been spotted, the latest victim isKimberly Hester, a teacher’s aide at Frank Squires Elementary in Cassopolis who is currently involved in a legal … [Read more...]
A new generation of Facebook Scams has emerged just in time for the launch of Timeline – Facebook’s new profile layout. And while these changes have more than one user celebrating Facebook’s evolution, there are a large number of defectors who are begging Facebook to let them revert back to their old profiles. Mashable recently reported an increase in Facebook scams targeting these users … [Read more...]
Banning employees from Facebook, Twitter and other sites shows a 30% increase in computer security breaches TELUS and the Rotman School of Management have published their third annual IT security study. This time, the study revealed an increase in the number of security breaches in both government entities and companies in the private sector; with government entities experiencing twice the number … [Read more...]
By now many of you have read about security site Sophos recently released post on Facebook’s report on compromised accounts. According to the released infographic, 0.06% of the 1 billion logins per day are compromised. It does not sound like a threatening number until you realize we are still talking about roughly 600,000 accounts a day. Facebook’s report also indicated that less than 4% of … [Read more...]
It seems like Facebook will not let brands take a breather, during the last couple of weeks it has released several features that will completely change the way users interact with brands on the social media platform. On a recent post, we discussed the pros and cons of Timelines. We mentioned how information on a user’s “Likes” over time is now readily and easily available – all you need … [Read more...]
Yesterday’s announcement at the F8 conference unveiled Facebook’s latest attempt to reinvent itself. They introduced something called the Timeline – “it is how you can tell the whole story of your life on a single page”. With this introduction, we are presented with a vertical summary of your entire (Facebook) life. All of your posts, comments, tags, photos, check-ins and Likes are … [Read more...]
Ever wanted to know how to avoid those pesky link-infested messages from that stranger stalker from across the globe? Sit tight and let us show you how. Having an unprotected account will no longer leave you with absurd messages posted on your wall or shared with your friends; it can now infest you full of malware and leave you a victim of identity theft. Go on reading to find out how to keep … [Read more...]
In December of last year Facebook rolled out a new system of tagging friends in photos called “tag suggestions” which was designed specifically to make the process of tagging friends in multiple photos less time consuming. To accomplish this Facebook used, or I should say is still using, facial recognition software which scans newly uploaded photos and matches the faces to previously posted … [Read more...]
Facebook recently confessed to hiring a PR firm to “raise privacy concerns” about a Google feature. That statement alone should be enough to make you say “hmmm”. Facebook has a very public reputation of debating what content they consider private and what content associated with users profile pages they are able to use in order to market that data to advertisers. Yet when emails from the … [Read more...]
Third Parties Want Access to Personal Facebook Accounts... Over the past several years Facebook’s revolving privacy policies have been the source of controversy and angst amongst some users and privacy watch dogs. Users claims that jobs have been lost, identities stolen and lives turned upside down because the postings they made and assumed were private but were, in fact, available for … [Read more...]
