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Fix Your Security Settings of Facebook Photo-Tagging

The bad guys are exploiting the photo tagging feature to get facebook users to follow links to infected pages or other dubious deeds.

They generally post a picture and tag multiple people, including you, even though you are not in the picture. To combat this latest threat, you may want to consider a few changes to your privacy settings.

While the functionality of approving a photo tag before you are tagged is not available in facebook, you can follow the next steps to make it harder for others to tag you without your approval.

• Customize your privacy settings so that "Photos and videos I'm tagged in" is set to "Only Me."
• Set your notifications so that you always know when someone tags you in a photo or tags one of your photos. You can control this setting from the "Notifications" tab on the Account Settings page.
• Click "remove tag" when viewing the photo in which you are tag, and don't want to be.

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Wait! Don't click that button!

As we all try to get connected to the Social Networks, there are some important, common sense, precautions we need to take.

The article below appeared in the February issue of CIO Magazine. I thought I would share it to make you aware that we have to exercise a reasonable amount of caution and good judgement. Specially if we are interacting with potential business relationships who may be affected by our actions (or lack-thereof).

Although the title of the article mentions Facebook by name, it is by no means the only site that has had problem. More about that another time.

Slapped in the Facebook: Social Networking Dangers Exposed
For many people, social networking has become as much of a daily routine as brewing coffee and brushing teeth. IT administrators dislike it and cyber crooks depend on it.

Click to read the full article