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Even if they come from friends and family on Facebook and other social sites. And always use different passwords on every site! Worm steals 45,000 Facebook login credentials, infects victims’ friends A worm previously used to commit financial fraud is now stealing Facebook login credentials, compromising at least 45,000 Facebook accounts with the goals of . . . → Read More: A small security reminder: Beware of suspicious links! One more reason to switch to Google+: No ads. Though I suspect we’ll see some eventually. Even so, Google’s ads in other servers like Search and Gmail tend to be surprisingly unobtrusive compared to many other places on the web. Hot for 2012: Facebook Ads in Your News Feed! [Facebook] Ads ads ads ads ads . . . → Read More: One more reason to switch to Google+: No ads. 
Scammers are a clever bunch. They’re always coming up with ways to try and separate you from your cash. Lately it involves hacking Facebook accounts and then scamming friends of the victim into sending them money. The folks over at The Consumerist have two recent examples of the scam being thwarted by vigilant would-be victims: . . . → Read More: Beware friends asking for emergency money via Facebook chat. 
Take a look at the following picture and tell me what’s wrong with it:
Oh my! It's so scandalous! Apparently that’s all it took for a Georgia high school principal to fire English teacher Ashley Payne: “He just asked me, ‘Do you have a Facebook page?’” Payne said. “And you know, I’m confused as . . . → Read More: Innocuous picture on Facebook gets a teacher fired. 
Least likely to win Mother-Of-The-Year award. A 22 year-old Jacksonville, Florida mother is facing second degree murder charges for killing her 3-month-old son. Seems his endless crying was interfering with her mad crop growing skillz in FarmVille and her creative solution was to shake the living shit out him: Alexandra V. Tobias, 22, was . . . → Read More: Mother shakes baby to death for interrupting FarmVille game. You may have noticed that I’ve removed the ability to edit comments for the moment. The Ajax based plugin I was using wasn’t working for everyone and it’s since gone commercial. I’ve yet to find an alternative solution that is both 1) updated relatively recently and 2) easy to install. The one prospect I did . . . → Read More: Puttering around with SEB. Technically it’s actually episode 3 if you count the Great Lost Episode that was brought about by my momentary technical ineptitude. In this episode we spend way more time than we probably should have recapping what we talked about in the Great Lost Episode. Alas, my ADD was in full force tonight and ***Dave was . . . → Read More: Episode 2 of The SEB Podcast is now online. How’s this for being totally unfair: A Brownsville high school teacher has been suspended for 30 days without pay after she appeared in a picture someone else posted on Facebook that included a male stripper at a bridal shower. [...] Board member Stella Broadwater says the suspension is appropriate because the photo became public, but . . . → Read More: This Just In: Teachers not allowed to have a life outside of school. A couple of folks have been chatting with me about Facebook in email and, while I’m still not sure I understand it, I decided to take the plunge and sign up. I was surprised to have one friend added almost immediately, fellow blogger Neil Turner, after the system figured out that I was friends with . . . → Read More: I am now on Facebook. Or most of the other social websites that are out there. Twitter is wildly popular, but it seems like the sort of thing you’d use if you didn’t have a blog. Here’s what it’s for according to their about page: Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through . . . → Read More: I must be getting old. I still don’t understand what Twitter is for. |
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