Fraud prevention experts estimate that cybercriminals commit about 80 percent more online fraud during the holiday season than the rest of the year. That’s why it is the perfect time for Abine to roll out DoNotTrackMe 3.0, a browser extension that stops online trackers from finding your contact and credit card info. DoNotTrackMe’s core features…

 A New Jersey court ruled this week that sex offenders on parole don’t have the right to use Facebook and other social networking sites. In a 54-page opinion, the three-judge panel who upheld the law said that sex offenders are more likely to repeat their crimes than other criminals, and thus should not be allowed…

A security researcher found a vulnerability in Facebook’s “People You May Know” feature that allows anyone to see a users’ list of friends – even when the user has set that information to private. The researcher, Irene Abezgauz from the Quotium Seeker Research Center, found a diabolically simple way to exploit the weakness. All a…

They’re so popular, those ubiquitous mobile devices. For better or worse, we’ve evolved into a society that is a texting, Facebooking, Snapchatting, online-banking, TMI-ing, forever-connected, 24/7-kind of world.  And 85% of users are connecting to social media sites via public WiFi! There’s positives to that, for sure, and is a great way to stay connected.…

Facebook rejiggered its privacy settings last week to ensure that users can no longer make themselves unsearchable on the site’s new Graph Search function. However, as CNET reported last week, the policy change also guaranteed that users can no longer hide their profile pictures, cover photos or personal networks from anyone searching for them. “Your…

All Facebook users have an ‘Activity Log’ that tracks your actions across the platform, and this includes anything you have searched for on Facebook. Only you can see your search history, so this information isn’t available to your friends or to the public. However, if you use a shared computer or if you are worried…

Facebook’s product manager for the special products group, Erick Tseng, spoke at length this week about the site’s plans to expand into both Wi-Fi Internet connections and wearable technology. Tseng said that Facebook is currently working with merchants like Cisco to provide “Facebook Wi-Fi,” a technology that would allow users to gain Internet access by…

Laraine Cook, an Idaho high school girls’ basketball coach, was fired from her job this week after posting a relatively tame photo on her Facebook profile of her fiancé, a football coach at the school, grabbing her breast. The photo was reportedly posted as part of a vacation album on Cook’s profile and then removed…

A Facebook group stands accused of stealing baby photos from other users’ profiles for the purposes of making fun of them. According to the TV station that first reported on it, the page was taking unprotected photos of children it deemed “ugly” from other people’s profiles and then posting them to solicit mockery. Some of…

When Facebook introduced its Graph Search function, which allows users to sift through over 1 trillion pieces of individual content like statuses and comments on the site via a search engine, many users were put off. Years-old content could now potentially be dredged up in a search if users weren’t careful about their privacy settings,…