NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — If you’re a Facebook user, you have a @facebook.com email address, whether you use it or not. Facebook is now automatically posting those addresses to users’ profiles and displaying them as the default email address.

Facebook changes default emails to @facebook.com – Jun. 25, 2012

Posted: June 26th, 2012 under Facebook, Internet, Privacy.
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LinkedIn users are advised to change their passwords after it was revealed that more than 6.5 million encrypted passwords were posted to a Russian hacker website. The hackers are attempting to enlist help to crack the encryption, and 300,000 accounts are already compromised

Change your LinkedIn password NOW: 6.5 million accounts at risk

Posted: June 6th, 2012 under Internet, Privacy, Security.
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Facebook updated its privacy policy last Friday, clarifying what it does with your data, while also blurring the limits of what it can do with your information. Commendably, it posted the entire document with tracked changes in red. It’s a 14-page document, which I know you all have time to read (insert SarcMarc).

10 Things You Should Know About Facebook’s New Privacy Policy

Posted: May 16th, 2012 under Facebook, Internet, Privacy, Security.
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About 13 million Facebook users in the United States either do not use or do not know about the social network’s privacy controls, sharing private information they would not have otherwise. This amounts to one out of every 10 users in the country.

One in 10 US Facebook users don’t protect privacy

Posted: May 8th, 2012 under Facebook, Internet, Privacy, Security.
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Associated Press

9:27 a.m. CDT, May 4, 2012

The "like" button on Facebook seems like a relatively clear way to express your support for something, but a federal judge says that doesn’t mean clicking it is constitutionally protected speech.

Court: No 1st Amendment protection for Facebook ‘like’ – chicagotribune.com

Posted: May 5th, 2012 under Privacy.
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I often get email from people who misunderstand or fear browser cookies. And that’s no wonder, given all the false and misleading information that’s out there. Since 1996, I’ve been working to dispel the cookie myths, and neither the technology nor my opinion of cookies has changed much since then. Read on for a closer look at the good, the bad, and the crumbly aspects of web browser cookies…

Read more: http://askbobrankin.com/a_closer_look_at_cookies.html#ixzz1rVBH6WL0

Posted: April 8th, 2012 under Internet Explorer, Privacy, Security, Software.
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are2.com, a site dedicated to environmental awareness, petitioning, and charitable donation with more than 17 million members has been hacked, according to a message from the company Friday morning.

Hacked! Environmental activism site Care2, users exposed

Posted: December 31st, 2011 under Privacy, Security.
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A new easy and free app has been released to let you know.

BitDefender IQ Finder

Posted: December 8th, 2011 under Android, Operating Systems, Privacy, Security, Uncategorized.
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If you have any private photos on Facebook that you really don’t want out there, consider this story your fair warning to delete them. A flaw in the social networking site’s reporting mechanism allows users to peer into content that is otherwise marked "private". Now would be a good time to remove that pic of drunken you mooning the boss.

Facebook flaw briefly exposes private photos, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s

Posted: December 6th, 2011 under Facebook, Internet, Privacy, Security.
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AVG, a family of anti-virus and internet security software for various platforms, had released the very first antivirus suite for Windows Phone 7. The suite included an antivirus, anti-malware, and anti-phishing tools. Today, reports are indicating that this "antivirus" app might be more dangerous than expected.

WP7 AVG antivirus app pulled from Marketplace, may be spyware | WinBeta

Posted: September 10th, 2011 under Privacy, Security, Software.
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