Social Media Security

Police in the German state of Lower-Saxony will soon use their networks of Facebook “friends” to find missing persons and hunt out suspected criminals, according to the state’s interior minister. The decision to use social media in manhunts follows the  [ Read More ]

In the fallout of the August Riots across the UK, two men from the the North West of England were sentenced to 4yrs in jail for trying to incite riots in towns by postings on Facebook – even though their  [ Read More ]

Facebook has leaked access to millions of users’ photographs, profiles and other personal information because of a years-old bug that overrides individual privacy settings, researchers from Symantec said. The flaw, which the researchers estimate has affected hundreds of thousands of  [ Read More ]

Facebook has plugged a password reset glitch involving users who linked their social network profiles to Hotmail webmail address. The flaw, discovered by Turkish security researcher Serkan Gencel, also created a possible mechanism for cyber-criminals to lift Facebook passwords linked  [ Read More ]

Twitter has been struck by a virally spreading worm that attempts to make money by scamming users into filling out surveys and viewing advertisements. The rogue Twitter app is known as Profile Spy and gets installed by people who are  [ Read More ]

You will notice that on your profile, that the number shown next to the link to your photos & albums is larger than the amount of pictures of you have uploaded of yourself, or that the number changes sometimes. That’s  [ Read More ]

Facebook has revealed that about 20,000 children are kicked off the social networking site every day for lying about their age. Despite efforts to enforce the age limit policy, many underage children join the site by pretending to be older  [ Read More ]

In the list below, please select all the social networks that you use. If you think we’ve missed an important one, please post a comment and let us know!

“I can’t believe a GIRL did this just because of Justin Bieber.” This is the title of the latest “likejacking” / “clickjacking” scam thats hitting Facebook Bieber fans hard. This message is being posted on Facebook walls enticing you to  [ Read More ]

On Friday, Facebook offered its users a sneak peak at a major overhaul in how the site intends to present its privacy policy, and asked whether they like the idea. The facelift follows waves of criticism over user privacy on  [ Read More ]