First let me introduce myself, the name is Coldfreeze, Cold or Freeze to friends. In my personal life I have been active in IT for over three years and did a lot of research into security, I also do provide starting companies with information on how to protect themselves from certain hazards, like social media and or leaks in their security, but today I will be discussing social media.
some of you have put their social media links on their profile, most of those social media links are unprotected, making it easy to find out where you live and or what your name is.
As I was looking through forum profiles, I noticed that things like social media and private information by some of you is not that well protected. I decided to help you guys and gals with a small guide to make sure that you will not provide any personal information unwanted.
Some of you have also protected their accounts, but still show their friends.
Conversations with friends are a small source of information, but if you put some of those small bits information together, it isn’t that hard to get to know some basic stuff about you.
If there is ANY trade of personal information needed, do this through a personal message, on Facebook and our beloved forum.
Most social media sites have an option to hide certain information from outside viewers.
Twitter
The social media service base upon a simple concept of 140 character per message and for the sake of saying a little birdie just told me.
Twitter has an option in settings called Security and privacy in this you can adjust setting such as:
Protect my tweets allows you to select which user can see your tweets
Discoverability Lets people find you by email.
There are tons of other settings which you can adjust to make sure that your personal information is only seen by people you trust.
Facebook
The hugely popular social media giant and also the downfall of many politicians (I love the internet.)
Facebook also has a lot of options to protect yourself
The most important parts of these are:
Security: multiple options to protect your account
Privacy: Multiple options to protect your well…um…privacy. most important section here is the “Who can see my stuff area?”
A lot thing you your self can prevent are part of your own willingness to give out information, some simple guide lines are:
Never give out any personal information to someone you do not know
If a site requires a Facebook account, just deny it if you don't want to do so. (depends on your personal view, this forum has it.)
Moderators on these forums cannot oblige you to give any personal information, if some does, try report him immediately.
If this proves handy to some people let me know and if you want more information about anything else IT security related, PM and I’ll see if I can help.
Stay safe!
Coldfreeze