This week I was contacted by a parent here on the Northern Beaches who’s daughter was duped by an online predator, who is posing as a well known Australian T.V show celebrity on Facebook. This man, has set up many Facebook pages impersonating this particular Australian “Soap” star. In this particularly alarming case the… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Cyber Security
Huge Privacy Issue With Facebook’s Graph Search!
Facebook’s “Graph Search” is slowly being rolled out here in Australia. Facebook’s Graph Search is a new way to search Facebook so that you can use Facebook profiles with very personal details to pin-point and drill down exactly who you want to find, weather they are a friend or not. This new search uses your… Continue Reading
Advanced Privacy Settings For Facebook
Hidden Hard To Understand Privacy Settings! If you want to protect your privacy as much as possible on Facebook, follow the Step By Step Privacy Settings video below, using the newly laid out Facebook Privacy Settings. The settings I take you through on the video below are the same settings available as the previous… Continue Reading
Facebook’s New Privacy Shortcut Settings
Facebook’s New Search Engine. Graph Search. Good for business. Bad for Privacy! With the soon to be released Facebook Graph Search just being announced, it is now imperative that you have the privacy level you want on Facebook. If you thought Timeline was a shock with how easy it was for people to… Continue Reading
Parents Watch Out For The Zombie Video Games!
Violence Against Zombies In Video Games Zombie Craze! There is a huge Zombie craze right now in computer video games on T.V and Movies (if you haven’t noticed..). It seems to have replaced the Vampire craze of recent times in the same media. I do have a concern as a parent of younger… Continue Reading
What To Do About A Fake Facebook Page?
Following My Interview With 2UE Today. Impersonation on social media particularly on Facebook can be a very cruel way to bully another person. How does this happen and how can you prevent it? Following My Interview With 2UE Today. As reported by “The Age” Newspaper today “Just Jeans” Facebook Page was “attacked” by a Fake… Continue Reading
Don’t Do A “Randi Zuckerberg” Protect your posts on Facebook!
Remember: There is really no such thing as a private post on Facebook, as soon as you post an update, only one of your friends has to comment or interact with that post/photo, and it will be seen by your friends friends on their walls anyway. You can minimise exposure though by changing some pre… Continue Reading
Parental Controls For iPad, iPhone, iPods
Predictably there will be a huge amount of Apple mobile devices given as gifts to kids of all ages in a few weeks time for Christmas. It’s quite likely that kids as young as 4 years old will be given iPad Minis or iPods. It is so important that when setting up these mobile devices… Continue Reading
How To Stop Your Twitter Or Facebook Account From Spreading A Virus
So many nasty viruses are going around on Facebook and Twitter, and at Christmas holiday time they are likely to be targeting us even more. Getting duped into to clicking on that spam link, can be potentially embarrasing if it then spreads amoungst your friends or followers, and can be worse still if you are… Continue Reading