The UK has recently seen its first prison sentence handed out for cyber-bullying, as an 18 year old girl was sentenced to three months in a young offenders’ institution after pleading guilty to harassment.
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Facebook to increase awareness of application data access
Facebook is going to be changing the way we interface with applications. More specifically, users are going to be made much more aware of just how much access they are giving to third-party companies to their personal data.
Facebook tries to patent crowd-sourced translations
Facebook harnessed the power of its massive user-base to create a simple system whereby users would translate particular sentences collectively – and now it wants to patent the way in which this was done.
10 ways to improve social network security
A few simple precautions that one can take to minimise the chances that you personally will be the victim of an unethical individual exploiting your security weaknesses.
Panic follows social networking DDoS
Over the last few days many of us may have realised just how reliant we are upon our social networks and online forms of communication such as Facebook and Twitter. Following a co-ordinated and sustained DDoS attack on some of the major social networking sites, many individuals were unable to log into their networks for up to 48 hours.