One of the most annoying elements on Facebook in my opinion is photo tag spam that is running rampant on the social networking site. Especially so since spammers take advantage of the fact that you do not really need to be on a photo to be tagged on it. Even worse, those new photos appear [...]

Categories: Facebook

Over the weekend Martin here reported that Facebook had released their own Guide to Facebook Security “aimed at young adults, parents and educators to educate them about security concepts on the social networking site.”  It’s a 14 page, fairly academic piece that doesn’t address the fundamental issue that Facebook need to get their own house [...]

Categories: Facebook, Tutorials Basic

I have to admit that I’m not a LinkedIn user. I probably should have an account with my Internet business and all, but then again, it feels to me like yet another network that I have to spend time on. So, no LinkedIn for me. I recently stumbled upon a story over at Connection Agent. [...]

Categories: Security, The Web

A US man who sent more than 27 million spam to Facebook users has turned himself in to FBI officers in California after being put on their wanted list.  Sanford Wallace, from Las Vegas developed a program that was able to circumvent Facebook’s spam filters.  The software then lured over 500,000 people to hand over [...]

Categories: Facebook, Tutorials Basic

Google’s receiving mostly warm receptions from Internet geeks, websites and standard users for their new Google+ social networking service. The company learned to use the Internet hype machine perfectly for their purposes to push the service out in the open. While it is not really clear how we will perceive the service in one year’s [...]

Categories: Google

I received my Google+ invite this morning and have been playing around with Google’s “answer” to Facebook since then. The thing that I like about it most is the circles feature which allows you to create groups of friends or contacts. One of the problems that Facebook currently has is that you do not have [...]

Categories: Security, The Web

Here is a rule of thumb that is more important than ever on today’s Internet: Do not post anything on the Internet that you do not want others to find out about you. Do not post it on your public Facebook profile, not on Twitter, do not use real life accounts when you make awkward [...]

Categories: Security

Operating systems and applications often save loads and loads of information, often without the user knowing about it. This can have privacy implications, considering that it may be possible to recover files, bookmarks or visited web pages easily. We have covered the topic before, see Used Hard Drives Still Haven For Identify Theft for instance. [...]

Categories: Advice

News out of Washington is that Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, said he is optimistic that Congress would update the 1986 law (the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, or ECPA) to protect the privacy of Americans who use the Internet and mobile phones. The law was originally crafted during the era of [...]

Categories: The Web