This week Google launched an ad campaign and Web site headlined "Good To Know," according to a report at the Washington Post. Aimed at teaching Net users the basics of protecting their data in our increasingly social media environment, the campaign has ads appearing in "dozens of U.S. newspapers, including The New York Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal, and magazines, including Time … [Read more...] about Google’s data-security ed campaign & site
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Facebook says it’s looking into photo attack
I hope you haven't noticed, but what's apparently an attack on Facebook reportedly went viral last night. The "flood of violent and pornographic images invading [Facebook users'] news feeds" has prompted Facebook to launch an investigation, the Washington Post reports. The Post cites the view from security firm Sophos that "users whose accounts post the images are unable to see them on their own … [Read more...] about Facebook says it’s looking into photo attack
Key phishing-avoidance trick
Share this easy phishing-avoidance tactic with Facebook users in your family. ZDNET writer Ed Bott provides screenshots of four Facebook email notifications he has received, two of them definitely not from Facebook. He illustrates how hard it is to tell fake Facebook emails from real ones, but here's a great trick that will help you and your kids: Instead of just clicking, hover your cursor or … [Read more...] about Key phishing-avoidance trick
DefCon’s first kid hackers
You know that there are hackers, and then there are hackers, right? Sure there are criminal hackers, but there are also plenty of "white hat" hackers who are in it for the challenge and to help find security breaches so companies and governments can get them fixed. Well, DefCon, one of the longest-running annual hacker conventions, just happened in Las Vegas for the 19th time, and it seems the … [Read more...] about DefCon’s first kid hackers
How cellphones get hacked
Amid the headlines and hearings about a British tabloid hacking cellphones, you may be curious about how that was done. You may also be curious about phone security for kids – I'll get to that in a moment. My ConnectSafely co-director Larry Magid explained in the Huffington Post how easily those hacks can happen. He writes of default PIN numbers (used sometimes by criminal hackers when people … [Read more...] about How cellphones get hacked