Tag Archives : identity theft

Who watched ‘The Social Network‘ should remember Mark Zuckerberg hacking sites for pictures of his colleagues at Harvard for an early prototype of Facebook, in order to evaluate who the most beautiful on the university. Likewise, Zuckerberg did when was young, the creators of Face-to-site Facebook.net ‘scraped’ data and photographs [...]

Women are significantly more likely to fall for scams on the Internet than men, concludes a survey based on an online test. In six of the seven tests, most women fail to recognize a scam compared to men. Women assumed familiar with technology, between 25 and 34, comprise the group most vulnerable to scams, according to the site Knowthenet, UK. The [...]

Yes, there’s more to Facebook than FarmVille. Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn may just be your passport in landing that great job of your dreams. David Grant shares to us some invaluable social media tips in The Christian Science Monitor. Firstly, get off that Mafia Wars and quit that 15th photo album on the last time you watered your garden plants. [...]

Have your ever tried changing your password in Google Accounts or tried to log onto Facebook with multiple attempts with a wrong password. Inadvertently, you would have more or less come across an authentication page, that asks you to enter the numerals or alpha-numerals from an image provided. These images are known as captchas and are designed specifically [...]

Don’t we already know that we lay ourselves vulnerable with our online existence and constantly updated presence? It seems that this open vulnerability has been rearing its ugly head to the tune of thousands of dollars. Jayne Scherrman was conned of ‘$4,000 by scammers who hacked into a Facebook page belonging to one of her friends.’ This is [...]

If you have been worried about what comes up when people Google your name, your fears are not unfounded. Whatever shows up on the first and second pages f the results can either make or break you. Thus, Google has launched the Google Profiles services, which lets you how much information you can share or not share. You could start with not revealing [...]