social media: Predators Using Social Media to Stalk Kids
- 05/09/11 03:41 PM
All the advice one hears when told how to keep your kids safe on the internet from your home computer goes out the window when a mobile phone and other portable devices are introduced into the child’s life. The sage advice was to put a PC in the living room and monitor your kids activity. Today that becomes impossible when there are tablets, iPads, mobile phones, laptops, online games and webcams. All these technologies provide new opportunities for the bad guy. Child predators are often those who gravitate towards trusted positions in society where they have direct access to kids. Others … (2 comments)
social media: Phishers Using Holidays and Social Media to Target
- 04/23/11 04:51 PM
Recent reports of “The Oak Ridge National Laboratory, home to one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, has been forced to shut down its email systems and all Internet access for employees since late last Friday, following a sophisticated cyberattack.” The sophisticated cyber attack was reported to be the lowly unsophisticated phishing email. Phishing is emerging as sophisticated due to ways in which the phish emails are disguised to look like legitimate communications often from other trusted employees on the inside. The criminals behind these emails are doing their research on company websites finding key individuals to model and following up … (0 comments)
social media: Facebook Used To Stop Home Invasion
- 04/17/11 07:44 AM
This is just the greatest story about social media used for doing good EVER. A University of Georgia student was in bed when masked men invaded his home and tied up his 17-year-old sister and his grandmother. The student wakes up and probably heard yelling and realized what was happening; apparently he didn’t have his phone so he took his laptop and hid in the attic. He logged into Facebook and wrote as a status message “someone please call 911, no phone, hiding in my house, robbery,” CNN reports “His best friend called police, and sheriff’s deputies arrived, the men scattered … (3 comments)
social media: 5 Gotta Have Social Media Apps
- 03/25/11 12:49 PM
Applications on mobile phones are all the rage. I spend more time on my apps than I do making calls. That time spent is often with those I connect with on social media. Twitter and Facebook are the major players in social media and applications for them are a plenty. TweetDeck FREE. TweetDeck is your mobile browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now on Twitter from your iPhone or iPod Touch. TweetDeck shows you everything you want to see at once, so you can stay organized and up to date no matter where you are. Create groups, search Twitter, … (4 comments)
social media: How to prevent social media identity theft
- 05/19/09 07:17 AM
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Two words: you can’t. However, there are several things you can and should do in order to manage your social media identity, which may prevent social media identity theft. What exactly is social media identity theft? It’s a form of cybersquatting using social media sites. If you’ve ever attempted to join a social media, more commonly known as a social networking site, or applied for an email account, and found that your first and last name were already taken, that may or may not have been social media identity theft, or cybersquatting. There may be someone … (0 comments)
All the advice one hears when told how to keep your kids safe on the internet from your home computer goes out the window when a mobile phone and other portable devices are introduced into the child’s life.
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