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Facecrooks Weekly Roundup – February 6, 2011

Facecrooks Weekly Roundup – February 6, 2011

Facebook Scams Profiled this Week: Mark Zuckerberg – Official Note Today, Facebook reached its full capacity, Starting today.. I’ve just seen who CREEPS around my pics the most on Facebook! You can see who creeps… PLAY Video. OMG! Her boyfriend was SHOCKED when he discovered this girlfriend video! WOW! I just watched who deleted me…

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Facecrooks Weekly Roundup – January 23, 2011

Facecrooks Weekly Roundup – January 23, 2011

Top Stories relating Privacy & Safety we followed this past week are listed below: Facebook Agrees to Change Friend Finder in Response to German Privacy Complaint Why Using 2 or 3 Simple Words May Be the Best Password Protection of All The Press Association: Parents warned of Facebook scam Social Media and Law Enforcement: Who…

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Facecrooks Weekly Roundup – January 16, 2011

Facecrooks Weekly Roundup – January 16, 2011

Top Stories relating Privacy & Safety we followed this past week are listed below: Facebook grants application developers access to user contact information Facebook fallacies: Privacy’s among the myths of the social networking site Infosecurity (UK) – Top three internet scams to avoid in 2011 Average Facebook user doesn’t know a fifth of friends CBC…

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Facecrooks Weekly Roundup – January 9, 2011

Facecrooks Weekly Roundup – January 9, 2011

Top Stories relating Privacy & Safety we followed this past week are listed below: One-Third of All Malware Appeared in 2010 Facebook virus spreads via photo album chat messages Top four cyber threats for 2011 revealed 10 ways to secure your PC from physical access Socioclean Wants to Clean Up Your Profile Facebook called to…

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Facecrooks Weekly Roundup – January 2, 2011

Facecrooks Weekly Roundup – January 2, 2011

Happy New Year to everyone! We hope 2011 is a great year for you ahead! This past week saw a lot of reflection on the top stories of 2010, and the social media gurus made their predictions for what may be in store for 2011. One thing they all agree on is that Facebook and…

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Facecrooks Weekly Roundup – December 26, 2010

Facecrooks Weekly Roundup – December 26, 2010

We hope everyone is having a safe and happy holiday season. Things were a little slow news wise this past week, but the scammers didn’t slow down at all. We don’t anticipate a change in that anytime soon. A lot of people received tech gadgets over the holidays and will be using them to access…

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Facecrooks Weekly Roundup – December 19, 2010

Facecrooks Weekly Roundup – December 19, 2010

This was a big week for Facebook and especially for Mark Zuckerberg. Time awarded him with the honor of being named the 2010 Person of the Year! No small feat for the 26 year old billionaire. Many internet users screamed foul, because they thought Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks was more deserving of the…

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Facecrooks Weekly Roundup – December 12, 2010

Facecrooks Weekly Roundup – December 12, 2010

Perhaps the biggest untold news story is the number of survey scams that were circulating on Facebook this past week. Some of them were old standbys lingering around and still being spread by the uninformed, while many were brand new and malicious in their intent. Several stories have been featured recently on the importance of…

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Facecrooks Weekly Roundup – December 5, 2010

Facecrooks Weekly Roundup – December 5, 2010

All in all, this was an unusually quiet week on the Facebook front…until last night! Well, a few new scams hit, bloggers made their predictions for privacy and security issues to be faced in 2011 and beyond, but nothing really gripping hit the blogoshpere until Sunday afternoon. Facebook announced via their Twitter account that new…

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Facecrooks Weekly Roundup – November 28, 2010

Facecrooks Weekly Roundup – November 28, 2010

Diaspora, an open source alternative to Facebook, opened a private Alpha phase this past week. For those of you unfamiliar, Diaspora raised over 200k earlier this year from the crowdsourcing platform kickstarter.com. Diaspora’s goal is to be the “privacy-aware” social network. The timing of their project couldn’t have been better. They capitalized on the woes…

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