A lot of Facebook users include their phone number(s) in their personal profile information. Facebook makes this information easily available by accessing your “friends” page. If you click the “Phonebook” link a listing of all your friends, and their numbers will be displayed. A lot of smart phones sync your mobile contacts with your Facebook…

This past week Jimmy Kimmel announced a new holiday, “National UnFriend Day” to be observed on November 17, 2010. In his monologue, Kimmel pokes fun at the people that have 500+ Facebook “friends.” He reminisces of the days when the term “friend” actually had some meaning. All joking aside, there is a real privacy risk…

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Facebook privacy and security continued to receive prominent media attention this week. One of the biggest stories revolved around Firesheep, a Firefox extension developed by Eric Butler. Firesheep was released to showcase the massive vulnerabilities of most social networking sites, including Facebook and Twitter. Butler is on record as stating the following, “As soon as…

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Security researchers warn that a new drive-by download attack is capable of infecting Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems with a new variant of the notorious Koobface worm. The attack was spotted on social networking websites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, the usual hunting grounds of the Koobface gang. It begins with users receiving…

Scam Signature Message: “Check who has deleted you” / “See who your friends really are!” Scam Type: Like Jacking – Survey Scam – Rogue Application Trending: October 2010 Why it’s a Scam: Once you click on the Wall Post link, you are taken to the following page: This is the main page for the “Loyalfriend”…

So, you have meticulously gone through all of your Facebook account and privacy settings and locked everything down. You have set everything to “Friends Only” or “Only Me.” You think that you are pretty well protected from people you don’t want finding you right?…Wrong! It appears that profiles that have been set to private are…

Another Facebook privacy fiasco was front and center this week. Security experts, media pundits and privacy advocates all weighed in on the issue with their two cents and then some. This latest privacy breach involved popular Facebook applications sending personal user information, specifically unique “Facebook ID” numbers, to third party companies and advertisers. These numbers…

Anonymizer announced the results of a recent consumer survey, and some of the findings were surprising. 75% of respondents believed a firewall and another 62% believed anti-virus software both offered online identity theft protection. Firewalls are used to protect a computer against rogue and malicious intrusions. Anti-virus software scans files, hard drives etc in an…