Facebook to Simplify Privacy and Security Dashboard

In the aftermath of the story about Cambridge Analytica violating the privacy of Facebook users, Facebook has announced plans to centralize and streamline the tortuous task of managing your privacy and security settings.

These changes are important, but actually do not solve the root problem, which is Facebook’s rather laissez-faire manner of managing app developers and data integrators who use the Facebook platform.

The promised  improvements are:

  • Creating a simpler centralized ...
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Securing Facebook

In the aftermath of the recent stories about how the personal information of 50 million Facebook users was acquired and misused by the Trump Presidential campaign, many people are wondering whether they should delete their Facebook account.  Others are just looking to see how they can more tightly secure their Facebook account from this sort of abuse.  Fortunately, securing Facebook is relatively easy.

  • Open your Facebook home page, and click on ...
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Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.


 Falling Chinese Space Station

Sometime around April 3—give or take about a week—China’s 9.5-ton Tiangong-1 space station will fall out of orbit and enter Earth’s atmosphere. While media reports for the last few months have hyped the  Continue Reading →

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What Security Advice Do The Experts Offer?

I recently read an article from Heimdal Security about online safety.  In this article Heimdal had asked 18 experts in the field of cybersecurity for their top 3 ideas about how to stay secure.  The contributors included top cybersecurity professionals from several anti-malware companies, security bloggers, and cybersecurity industry professionals.  The original article is here.

What I found interesting were ...

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Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.


Malware Displaying Porn Ads Discovered in Game Apps on Google Play

Google removed 60 games that contained code to display porn pop-ups and other malicious activities.  Click through to see list of bad apps.  If you installed any of them, you will need to remove these yourself.


Visa joins other major ...

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Integrated Password Managers – Apple iCloud Keychain

On Wednesday, we looked at the built-in password manager provided by Google Smart Lock.  Today we will review Apple’s iCloud Keychain.  Keychain works automatically with iPhones, iPads, and Macs, and is shared an updated to all your devices automatically.  Most of the Apple users I talk to are familiar with Keychain.  Keychain works with devices that are ...

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Google Offers Advanced Protection Program for High Risk Individuals

If you are a high risk or high net worth user of Google’s popular Gmail platform, Google Drive, or other Google services such as YouTube or Google Analytics, Google has come up with an advanced security program for you.

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Securing Your Social Networks

Social networks are a tremendous source of personal information leakage.  Actually, more like a waterfall.  As we learned in the last post, attackers use social networks to perform reconnaissance against their chosen targets.  Since few of us are going to delete all our social network accounts and move of the grid, we have to find a way to live ...

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