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Whilst you are going about your day-to-day tasks online, you may be blissfully unaware that a website is creating a profile about you, using your personally identifiable information without your knowledge or consent, and this site will use your profile to encourage others to say negative or nasty things about you. A pretty reprehensible website came to our attention yesterday. Jerk.com (we’re not linking to it, we don’t want to increase its SEO value) is a site that either manually… ...read more Facebook users are facing the latest wave of spam to hit the social networking site that seem mostly targeted as suspicious “payday loan” websites that purport to offer loans to Internet users. However this new wave of spam seems to be exploiting a vulnerability involving Facebook groups. The first we heard of it was over a week ago when some garbled all-caps warning message hit the Facebook rumour mill at viral speed. The essentially useless message tried to… ...read more Determining that line – that line we mustn’t cross – is no easy task. That blurred line between acceptable and unacceptable. Between reasonable and unreasonable. Between risqué and downright vile. But perhaps Facebook should revisit their own determination of this line, because apparently “anything goes” on the world’s largest social networking site, where the lower age limit is a mere 13 years of age. Over the last week Facebook have… ...read more What Happens After you Click the Report Button – Now You’ll Know! Facebook announced today the launch and initial testing of their brand new Support Dashboard, a system that gives a Facebook user insight into what happens behind the scenes after they report a photo or timeline. This is what the new Support Dashboard will look like once it hits your account Anyone who has ever tried to… ...read more You may have recently heard a lot of stories recently about a type of malware referred to as DNSChanger, or you may have heard that on July 9th you may lose your Internet access if you’re infected with malware. We explain – simply and concisely – what it is all about and what you need to do and know to make sure you’re not affected. The Apple… ...read more If you’ve ever clicked on spam email before, you’re probably familiar with a little online news website called “Consumer Career Trends”, or the “Online Jobs Journal”, or the “Atlanta Tribune” or a hundred other different variations. These online “news sites” detail the story of how some stay-at-home mom became a success story overnight using some work-from-home program that is generating her significant online income, and how you can do it too. Just follow the links and become the next… ...read more Facebook users are now able to check up on potential Facebook friends with a new application called Friend Verifier which is able to check up on individuals to see if they – at some point – have ended up on a sex offenders registry, to prevent users inadvertently befriending potentially dangerous predators. The application works by connecting with publically available sex offender registries in the USA to retrieve results. Previously… ...read more One of the most obvious and common signs that something is wrong with your Facebook account is when you notice it automatically posting spam messages and links to websites without your permission. These potentially malicious messages and links are likely to start appearing in the newsfeeds of all your Facebook friends who may think you posted them, so it is important to find out why your account is posting them and how to stop it happening, which this article… ...read more Many of our regular readers will know that we have been battling a particularly nasty hoax inflicting Facebook over the last few months. For months photos of injured or disabled children and animals have been circulating the social networking site attached to a caption that asserts sharing or liking the photo will result in Facebook donating money towards the child’s family or medical expenses. Such assertions are absolutely false. Facebook DO NOT donate money… ...read more If you’re familiar with any of Google’s products, such as Gmail, Google+, Youtube, and of course Google Search, then you’ve probably heard of their new privacy policy update. To be fair, Google haven’t exactly been hiding it – in fact they’ve been force feeding it to all their users through email, pop-ups, reminders and so on. With good reason, because it’s pretty substantial. You may have noticed recently that Google’s been urging you to use all their services using only… ...read more |
