As the worldwide use of Facebook continues to grow, more and more scams are appearing on the popular social networking website. Using promos, “interesting” links and all other sorts of strategies to trap you, a grain of salt is always needed when dealing with things outside of what Facebook offers.
As more and more people continue [...]
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Beware of Facebook Scams
January 16th, 2012 · No Comments · Security
Tags: Facebook·scams·Security·Social Networks
Facebook “If I Die” App Will Bury Your Computer
September 20th, 2011 · No Comments · Security
The premise of a new Facebook app called “If I Die” is sweet if a little morbid: You record a video message that will be played for your loved ones after your death. As the app advertisement says: “Death can catch you anywhere, anytime. Leave your If I Die message before it’s too late.”
There’s just [...]
Anonymous Announces Intent to Take Down Facebook on November 5
August 11th, 2011 · No Comments · Security
Apparently, “Anonymous” won’t be accepting your friend request. Members of the shadowy collective known for its politically motivated Web hacks and attacks are targeting Facebook for what they claim to be the social-networking giant’s misuse of personal information.
“Your medium of communication you all so dearly adore will be destroyed,” the speaker said in a YouTube [...]
Facebook’s Default Facial Recognition Feature Renews Privacy Concerns
June 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Security
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – June 8 — Facebook has quietly expanded the availability of technology to automatically identify people in photos, renewing concerns about the privacy practices of the world’s top social networking service.
The feature, which Facebook automatically enabled for Facebook users, has been expanded from the United States to “most countries”, Facebook said on [...]
Tags: Facebook·privacy·Security·Social Media·Social Networking
Phishing Emails Claim To Come From Facebook
June 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Security
Facebook phishing scams that trick users into clicking malicious links in the status posts of victimized friends have been making headlines lately. The newest Facebook phishing scam, however, doesn’t even require the victim to be logged into Facebook; instead, fake emails claiming to be from Facebook are tricking users into giving up their personal information.
One [...]
Top Five Tech Goofs from 2010
February 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Microsoft
As we settle into the second month of the new year, I thought I would pay tribute to my personal list of the top 5 technology goof ups from 2010. Here is CNN’s top 10 as well. Enjoy…
5) iPhone 4 launch demo failure
4) Google Buzz
3) Facebook Privacy issues – I can find articles on this [...]
How Unfriending Helps Business
February 10th, 2011 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center
With the growth of social networking, it is becoming increasingly difficult to separate business connections with personal connections.
November 17, 2010 was declared by Jimmy Kimmel during his television show as “National Unfriend Day”, the opportunity for all Facebook users to declutter their Facebook pages by “unfriending” people in their friends lists. He claims that Facebook [...]
Tags: Communication·Facebook·marketing·Social Media·Social Networking
MS Outlook Now Integrated With Social Networks
November 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Microsoft, Uncategorized
As the social networking phenomenon continues to grow, not only for personal use but for business purposes as well, business email staple MS Outlook now allows for integration with popular social networking websites.
Outlook has long been the staple in many business communications – it is truly one of Microsoft’s feats of genius given how prevalent [...]
Tags: Facebook·LinkedIn·Microsoft·MS Outlook·MySpace·Outlook·Outlook Social Connector·Social Networks·Windows Live
“Like” us on Facebook = FREE White Paper Download!
August 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center
We are pleased to announce that we now have a Facebook page! Help us spread the word by hitting the “Suggest to friends” link under our profile picture. In return for “Liking” our page, we will give you access to a FREE White Paper. Take advantage of this opportunity today by clicking here. We appreciate [...]
Palo Alto Networks: ‘Read-Only’ Facebook
July 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Firewalls, Managed Services, Security
Palo Alto Networks recently released their ‘read-only’ Facebook functionality that can be implemented with the next-generation firewall and is available now at no cost to their customers. The ‘read-only’ Facebook allows companies to enforce their Facebook policy by having finer-grained controls over their employee’s access to the popular social networking site. This functionality lets companies [...]
Tags: 'Read-Only'·Facebook·Firewalls·Managed IT Services·Palo Alto Networks·Security·Social Networking
Thinking About Security in the Cloud?
May 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Cloud, Cloud Computing, Managed Hosting, Microsoft, Security
As we begin to store more and more of our data on the Internet and in the “Cloud,” the threat of that data being accessed and used by someone or something outside of our knowledge or control becomes very real. Data such as credit card information, banking transactions, work history, private addresses and numbers, email [...]
Tags: Cloud·Cloud Computing·Data·Facebook·Gartner·Google·IT Service Providers·Managed Hosting·Microsoft·Privacy Policy·Security·Security Risks of Cloud Computing·Twitter
Beware New Facebook Scam
May 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Managed Services, Security
McAfee posted on its blog recently news about e-mail purportedly coming from Facebook urging recipients to open an attachment to get their new password on the site. Unfortunately the email is a scam to get not only users’ password of the popular social networking website, but potentially any accounts they use while using their computer [...]
Tags: Facebook·Google·Malware·Managed Security Services·Managed Services·McAfee·Phishing·Phishing Scams·Scam·Security·Social Networking Website
Beware the Kneber Botnet
April 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Business Continuity, Managed Services, Security
A malicious piece of software making the rounds on news websites recently is believed to be behind the compromise of over 75,000 systems in over 2,500 international organizations – many of which are government agencies and large Fortune 500 companies.
Called the Kneber botnet after the name in the email used to register the initial domain [...]
Tags: Botnet·Business Continuity·Facebook·Fortune 500·Kneber·Kneber Botnet·Malicious Software·Malware·Managed Security·Managed Services·PayPal·Security·Social Networking·Zeus·Zeus Botnet
Social Media Poses Security Risks
February 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Managed Services, Security
Security company Websense released a survey of 1,300 IT professionals worldwide revealing that although social media or the use of “Web 2.0″ technologies such as blogs, wikis and social networks are already pervasive in business, a majority of IT managers seem ill equipped to manage its use, much less protect against security concerns associated with [...]
Tags: Blogs·Data-Stealing Attacks·Facebook·Security·Social Media·Social Networks·Web 2.0·Websense·Wikis