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Google has announced that their gmail service will now use secure https connections by default. Prior to this change, you had to select an option to enable https connections.
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Facebook is making changes to their privacy settings system. This means that it is time to review and set all your privacy options, including the options for your profile, search, newsfeed, and applications.
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Be careful when you receive friend requests on social network sites such as Facebook. When you accept someone as a friend, you are giving away a lot of personal, private information (e.g., name, birth date, school, workplace, location) depending on your privacy settings. This information could be used by identity thieves.
To illustrate the problem, Sophos did an experiment on Facebook where they created two fictitious identities, one using a picture of a rubber duck, and sent out friend requests to random people.
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“It’s simply a question of thoughtfulness.” That’s the message from this cute video about staying safe on the Internet done in the style of a 1940s educational film.
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A document from the US House Ethics Committee was leaked this week after a staffer brought the document to a home computer running peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing.
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Be careful about the amount of private information you publish online. Posting your photos from the big drinking party last night could get you in trouble with family and bosses, but there are other things to consider too.
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