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PandaLabs recently conducted an undercover investigation into the seedy world of cyber criminal networks. Their findings are shocking and should give cause for everyone to beef up their online security and identity protection efforts. PandaLabs stated, “This is a rapidly growing industry and cyber-criminals are aiding and abetting each other’s efforts to steal personal information…

PandaLabs recently conducted an undercover investigation into the seedy world of cyber criminal networks. Their findings are shocking and should give cause for everyone to beef up their online security and identity protection efforts. PandaLabs stated, “This is a rapidly growing industry and cyber-criminals are aiding and abetting each other’s efforts to steal personal information…

Facebook once again becomes the arena for the impetuousness, malice, irreverent humor and sexual harassment from a male high school student bent on showing off his skills in a rather inappropriate style. They say that high school life is a phase in which one should ‘survive’. Hormones run high; libidos run unchecked. Self confidence develops…

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Addiction comes in scary forms. In this age of virtual indulgence, cyber gratification and quasi escapism from the harsh realities of life, a person can get lost into the obsession-forming games on social networking sites. Addiction becomes a monster when it takes away the life of an innocent. Take a Big Bite of the Café…

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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…

Security settings in social networking sites and email addresses are there for a reason: secure what information users share about them on the internet. A user would know how effective these standard security settings are, if and only if, their account does not get hacked by malicious and cruel cyber stalkers. In this latest case…

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