facebook: Want to be a Cybercriminal? Try Facebook
- 05/02/19 09:26 AM
When you think of a cybercriminal, you probably picture someone in a black hoodie in a dark room on the dark web, but most cybercriminals are out there in plain sight, including on Facebook.
Talos, a cybersecurity firm, found that people can easily join Facebook groups, and then participate in cybercrime including buying and selling credit card info, obtaining spamming tools, or even getting account logins and passwords. All in all, these groups have almost 400,000 members.
Though that does sound like a lot, and it is a lot, you also have to remember that Facebook has about 2 billion users logging into … (8 comments)
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facebook: Should You Use Facebook to Login to Websites?
- 10/23/18 06:04 AM
Have you ever used Facebook to sign onto another site? Many of us do this pretty blindly simply because it is very convenient. But, this convenience could come at a cost.
You know the drill. You go to a website and it says “Log In With Facebook.” or Google. Usually, it just takes a couple of clicks and no logging in with other usernames or passwords. However, when you do this, Facebook essentially becomes your online identity. This means that anyone who knows these credentials have access to your preferences, posts, and most importantly, your personal information. What’s more is that you … (20 comments)
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facebook: Do Not take that Stupid Facebook Quiz
- 10/11/18 06:19 AM
Where should you live in the world? What Game of Thrones family are you in? What is the food that best describes your personality? All of these answers are given and found by doing quizzes on Facebook. You have surely seen them if you use Facebook, and have may have taken these quizzes, but you definitely might want to consider stopping. If you have ever used one of these quizzes, you have probably given these third-party apps permission to access some of your personal data. Not only does this affect you, it might also affect the people on your friends list. … (35 comments)
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facebook: Hey Kids, the Internet is FOS
- 04/02/17 12:43 AM
The internet is a beautiful place. It is the way we communicate, the way we create, and the biggest business platform that has ever been generated. However, it is also a hazard, as anyone can put anything on it, and it’s extremely difficult to tell fact from fiction…especially if you are a kid.
A Stanford study looked at the ability, or inability in this case, of almost 8,000 students to tell fake news stories from real ones. The results, to be blunt, are terrible. When focusing on the students who were in middle school, 80 percent of them were unable to tell … (3 comments)
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facebook: Facebook CEO Password dadada hacked
- 07/18/16 11:44 PM
If you’ve heard this once, you need to hear it again—and again: Never use the same password and username for more than one account!
If this got Mark Zuckerberg’s (Facebook’s chief executive). Twitter account hacked, it can get just about anybody hacked.
A report at nytimes.com says that the OurMine hacking group takes credit for busting into Zuckerberg’s accounts including LinkedIn and Pinterest. It’s possible that this breach was cultivated by a repeated password of Zuckerberg’s.
According to OurMine, Zuckerberg had been using the same password for several accounts. Not only is that asking for trouble, but the password itself is highly crackable: dadada. … (4 comments)
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facebook: Facebook Photos bust Bank Robber
- 11/16/15 10:10 PM
Do these bank robbers have bricks for brains? They actually posted photos of themselves with wads of the stolen cash on Facebook, says a story on thesmokinggun.com.
The alleged bank robers are John Mogan, 28 and Ashley Duboe, 24, and they’ve been charged with robbing a bank in Ohio. Mogan has already served time for a previous bank robbery conviction and was out on parole.
It all started when Mogan apparently sauntered into the bank and demanded money with a note. It’s not clear from the article whether or not Mogan brandished a weapon. At any rate, the teller handed over the money.
A … (3 comments)
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facebook: 15 Top Facebook Privacy Tips
- 02/25/15 09:08 PM
You wouldn’t have to worry about privacy issues on Facebook if you didn’t post sensitive, private information on Facebook…such as information that one day can be used against you. And really, you should share only what you consider “professional” information, even with family. Just stop with the nonsense.
At any rate, it’s important to know how to use Facebook’s privacy features, which change from time to time. Here are useful tips.
Go to Start, then Account, then Privacy Settings, then Edit Your Profile. In the Edit Your Profile feature, go through everything there and set things up. There are multiple data … (2 comments)
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facebook: 10 most dangerous Facebook Scams
- 09/19/14 11:08 PM
Twenty percent of the world’s population is “on” Facebook—that’s well over a billion people
Top 10 Most Popular Facebook Scams
Profile visitor stats. It’s all about vanity. It doesn’t take long for any new Facebook user to see an ad offering to reveal how many people are viewing your profile. You can even find out who’s viewing. It must make a lot of FB users feel validated to know how many people are viewing them and just whom, because this scam comes in at the top. Is it really that important to know how many people are viewing your profile? … (7 comments)
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facebook: Facebook Security for Parents and Teens
- 07/27/14 04:38 AM
Facebook offers a hefty amount of security measures that parents and teens should know.
The Login
Social authentication. A hacker will have a harder time hacking into your Facebook account if he or she must identify your friends via photos. This verification process is social authentication, and it’s easier to use than having to remember another password. ID verification. A new user must create a security question with an answer. An extra layer of security is achieved when the user adds their smartphone number so they can receive a text message with a code. One-time password. You can get a … (12 comments)
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facebook: The Definitive Guide to Facebook Security
- 02/26/14 09:21 PM
Social media is permeating every facet of our lives. It is extremely important to understand security and privacy settings with so much personal information becoming so accessible. Here is the definitive guide to security on Facebook:
Step One Logging In Social Authentication: Facebook uses social authentication to verify your account. This system asks you to identify your friends based on pictures. This is information that makes it incredibly hard for a hacker to hack and gain access to your account. It also helps you access your account more easily without having to remember, yet another, password.
ID Verification: Every new … (10 comments)
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facebook: Hackproof Your Facebook Account
- 11/10/13 08:01 PM
With over one billion people connected to Facebook, we have to assume that many of them are criminals. (Criminals are people with friends too!) But the criminals we need to be concerned about are the ones who create all kinds of scams designed to do everything from getting us to open our wallets to clicking links so we enter our personal information that lets them infect our devices.
Here’s some insight as to what they may do to get access to you and your account:
Phishing: Emails coming into your inbox right now may in fact be coming from Facebook because … (0 comments)
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facebook: Graduates: 10 Stupid Things You Don’t on Facebook
- 05/12/13 09:02 AM
You’ve done it. You’ve graduated at last. Your whole life is in front of you. Now is the time to make plans, embrace the world, take responsibility, make a statement, do some good and make this place better than how you found it.
And this should go without saying, but please don’t be stupid.
I’m not preaching here; the fact is I am fully qualified to discuss this topic because every day when I wake up, I tell myself, “Today I’m not going to say something stupid.” But, being human, I often do or say stupid stuff. However, rarely do I … (4 comments)
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facebook: Fake Friends Fool Facebook Users
- 04/01/13 11:11 PM
The word friend is defined as “one who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect and affection; an intimate associate.” But that definition seems to have gone out the window with the advent of social networks.
Studies show 50% of people will accept a Facebook “friend” or LinkedIn invitation from a total stranger. So do you consider the hundreds of friends on these social networks as people who you have an intimate affection for? Probably not.
This is why fraudsters have set up 15 million fake profiles that are used for spam and fraud. Just about anyone can set up a fake … (0 comments)
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facebook: Protect Your Facebook Photos
- 10/04/12 02:04 PM
Imagine you have a baby and want to share your newborn’s photos with your Facebook friends and family all across the country. You snap the pictures and post and receive lots of fun and exciting feedback.
Then a week later you are scanning Craigslist to buy some second hand baby stuff like strollers and maybe baby clothes. In the process of searching “baby” you see an ad for “ADOPT MY NEWBORN” and out of curiosity you click the ad and see a picture of your child!!!!
This has happened and will happen again. People are weird and do weird things with … (3 comments)
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facebook: Your “Status” is Important to Others
- 07/18/11 05:31 PM
People have always paid attention to your status. Now they do it on social media. Status is your “standing” in society. It could mean whether you are married, employed, rich, poor, saving the world, up to no good, home or not.
Status in terms of home security begins with your whereabouts.
By now we should all know posting your whereabouts (or where you aren’t) can be an invitation for criminals to break into your home while you are gone. It’s simply not a good idea to post you are not home and your house is vacant. On the other hand it … (6 comments)
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facebook: The Consequences of a Teacher’s Facebook Comments
- 06/22/11 02:23 PM
We should all know by now that nothing you post on Facebook is private. You may have gone through all the privacy settings to thoroughly lock down your profile, but even so, you can never be sure that your posts will remain hidden. Facebook alters their privacy settings so frequently, you never know when or how the defaults will change. No matter how strict your privacy settings are, accepting a friend request from a stranger (who may be a human resource officer, for example) allows him or her to see your private comments, which can always be easily copied, pasted, and … (3 comments)
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facebook: Is Your Facebook Friend a Fed, or Sex Offender?
- 03/31/10 09:18 PM
When you think about it, Facebook is weird. Where else in the world do you call people who you don’t know your friends? I probably have about 10-15 friends. Most are acquaintances and the others 400 are total strangers.
There’s a lot of excessive trust in the Facebook world. People have entirely dropped their sense of cynicism when logged on. They have no reason to distrust. People who are your “Friends” are generally those who you “know, like and trust.” In this world, your guard is as down as it will ever be. You are in the safety of your … (41 comments)
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facebook: How to Hack a Corporate Network…with Facebook
- 01/07/10 02:00 PM
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert
There’s a lot of excessive trust in the Facebook world. People have entirely dropped their sense of cynicism when logged on. They have no reason to distrust. People who are your “Friends” are generally those who you “know, like and trust”. In this world, your guard is as down as it will ever be. You are in the safety of your own home or office hanging with people all over the world in big cities and little towns and never have to watch your back.
Ethical hackers are the tech industries white nights, also known as … (1 comments)
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facebook: Facebook Newest Portal for Social Media Identity Theft
- 12/15/09 02:57 AM
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert
Imagine trying to log into your online accounts one after the other and being locked out. At first you think the site you are visiting screwed up but then it keeps happening over and over again no matter where you go. Then you start receiving messages from friends and family asking you why you are behaving so freakishly online.
This is what happened to Matasha Allen as described in the Eastern Michigan Universitys Eastern Echo.
“Allen, 28, was a substitute teacher at the time, teaching music as well as elementary classes. Her only outlet to the … (1 comments)
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facebook: 10 Ways to Prevent Social Media Scams
- 11/03/09 01:26 PM
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert
For the past year, I’ve been screaming about the trouble with social media as it relates to identity theft, brand hijacking, privacy issues, and the opportunity social media creates for criminals to “friend” their potential victims in order to create a false sense of trust and use that against their victims in phishing or other scams. I predicted long ago that the problem will get a lot worse before it gets better and there’s no question about it, criminal hackers have taken hold and are in full force.
We hear about a new Twitter phishing scam … (3 comments)
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When you think of a cybercriminal, you probably picture someone in a black hoodie in a dark room on the dark web, but most cybercriminals are out there in plain sight, including on Facebook.
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