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8 Steps To Regain Control Of Your Facebook Privacy

2010-01-13 06:41:10 by Editor in digg.com: Stories / Security / Popular
 
A article covering steps to reset Facebook privacy settings covering privacy in the context of search visibility, photos and videos, relationships and contact information
 
Tags: steps, contact information, privacy, photos, visibility, relationships, videos, article, context
 
 
 
 
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Why Facebook is Wrong: Privacy Is Still Important

2010-01-12 20:36:13 by Editor in digg.com: Stories / Security / Popular
 
Facebook is making a big mistake by moving away from its origins based on privacy for user data; its primary differentiator was that your user data was only visible to other users that you approved friend requests from. Here are three reasons why making some of this data public by requirement and some public by default is the wrong thing to do
 
Tags: user data, public, data public, primary differentiator, friend requests, wrong, origins based, facebook, privacy
 
 
 
 
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Facebook Records Every Click You Make

2010-01-12 13:41:27 by Editor in digg.com: Stories / Security / Popular
 
And uses the data to decide who your "best" friends are. This is an anonymous interview with a Facebook employee who dishes on all the secrets of the 220 million person social network
 
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Israeli Robots Remake Battlefield

2010-01-12 13:41:27 by Editor in digg.com: Stories / Security / Popular
 
Sixty years of near-constant war, a low tolerance for enduring casualties in conflict, and its high-tech industry have made Israel one of the world's leading innovators of military robotics. Israel is developing an army of robotic fighting machines that offers a window onto the potential future of warfare
 
Tags: military robotics, low tolerance, high-tech industry, potential future, near-constant war, israel, warfare, window, robotic
 
 
 
 
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Baidu.com the Latest Victim of Iranian CyberArmy

2010-01-12 10:37:50 by Editor in digg.com: Stories / Security / Popular
 
A group called the Iranian Cyber Army has, fresh off the heels of their DNS attack on Twitter last month, hijacked the domain of Chinese search engine Baidu.com
 
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Social Engineering: The Basics

2010-01-11 22:38:12 by Editor in digg.com: Stories / Security / Popular
 
What is social engineering? What are the most common and most current tactics? And how can you prevent these scams? A guide on how to stop social engineering
 
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Should you be worried about new Cellphone hacks?

2010-01-11 18:40:54 by Editor in digg.com: Stories / Security / Popular
 
How concerned should business users be about wireless security now that another group claims to have cracked the security scheme used by 80 percent of the world's cellular telephones
 
Tags: security scheme, business users, wireless security, cellular telephones, claims, percent, world
 
 
 
 
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Airport Scanners Can Store, Transmit Images

2010-01-11 18:40:54 by Editor in digg.com: Stories / Security / Popular
 
Contrary to public statements made by the Transportation Security Administration, full-body airport scanners do have the ability to store and transmit images, according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union
 
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Facebook's Zuckerberg: I know that people don't want privacy

2010-01-10 23:39:52 by Editor in digg.com: Stories / Security / Popular
 
In an interview in front of a live audience, the Facebook founder says if he were starting all over again, he'd make everyone's information public. Because that is the "social norm
 
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Chrome sets browser security standard, says expert

2010-01-10 01:48:14 by Editor in digg.com: Stories / Security / Popular
 
All browser makers should take a page from Google's Chrome and isolate untrusted data from the rest of the operating system. A noted security researcher believes that the future of security relies on "sandboxing," the practice of separating application processes from other applications, the operating system and user data
 
Tags: noted security researcher, user data, data, system, security relies, chrome, application processes, browser makers, google
 
 
 
 
 
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