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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 -
Hello there everyone, it is me again. After being mentioned as a hot topic in the weekly wrap up, I felt really flattered. This post is a follow up post on my last one, but this one focuses on Facebook. Facebook has a lot of security options, most of them are as easy as selecting allow or don’t allow, but some require more thought put into it and some of them are downright sneaky. First of all the; fast menu, Which can be found under this very small button here, in the top right of your Facebook page. This menu allows you to change your settings on the fly, even though this may not be as elaborate as the advanced menu, but it may just be enough for some of you. Ah the advanced menu, accessible by clicking on “See More Settings” as seen in the image above. The advanced menu has two options for security that matter the most: Security and Privacy As seen below. First up: Security Security has the easiest settings on Facebook, most of these speak for themselves, just selecting edit and then select which option you prefer. Next up: Privacy The main option here is “Who can see my stuff?” (Facebook uses such "professional" terms!) As you can see, it shows the “what is on your mind?“ box. Here you can select what your preferred method for posting is. It does not remove older posts from unfriendly eyes so keep that in mind. The two options on the bottom are very important and are two of the sneaky options I mentioned before. Who can contact me: Here you can select people who can contact you. Select either friends from friends or everyone. Who can look me up: This here is very important. This gives you the option to change how people can find you and even if people can find you using Google or any other search engine like Bing or Yahoo (why someone would use those is beyond my grasp.) Like I said before, PM me if you have any more questions about security. I made this follow up for уαηg χιασ ℓσηg, since he asked for a more detailed explanation of Facebook security. Au revoir! Coldfreeze
