Facebook announces Privacy-setting changes.
Amid the uproar and corresponding drop in the price of its stock, Facebook has redesigned the settings menu on mobile devices to make it easier for users to control. Previously the settings were spread across 20 screens. Now you can find all the settings accessible from a single place.
The enhancements include:
New Privacy Shortcuts menu. People have also told us that information about privacy, security, and ads should be much easier to find. The new Privacy Shortcuts is a menu where you can control your data in just a few taps, with clearer explanations of how our controls work. The experience is now clearer, more visual, and easy-to-find. From here you can:
Make your account more secure: You can add more layers of protection to your account, like two-factor authentication. If you turn this on and someone tries to log into your account from a device we don’t recognize, you’ll be asked to confirm whether it was you.
Control your personal information: You can review what you’ve shared and delete it if you want to. This includes posts you’ve shared or reacted to, friend requests you’ve sent, and things you’ve searched for on Facebook.
Control the ads you see: You can manage the information we use to show you ads. Ad preferences explain how ads work and the options you have.
Manage who sees your posts and profile information: You own what you share on Facebook, and you can manage things like who sees your posts and the information you choose to include on your profile.
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Playboy Latest to Delete Facebook Amid Data Handling Fallout
Playboy announced its intention to deactivate its Facebook accounts and leave the social network amid escalating concerns about the platform’s mismanagement of user data.
The publisher said that the decision follows the difficulty it has felt for years to express its "values" on Facebook, due to the platform’s policy on prohibiting nudity.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-28/playboy-latest-to-delete-facebook-amid-data-handling-fallout
Six days after a ransomware cyberattack, Atlanta officials are filling out forms by hand
In the past year, the City of Atlanta has experience 124 malware attacks per day, which equals 45,579 a year. 20 attacks were successful which shows that no matter what methods you employ to prevent a successful exploit, the weakest link is in the seat. 1 breach can spread to thousands of computers and that is the task security experts and techs are now having to perform. The task of checking servers, desktops, and notebooks could take weeks if not months to complete.
If the city were to pay the $50,000 in cryptocurrency to the criminals it has to be sure that all computers are clean of the malware to prevent it from being held hostage again after payment.
Now it appears that another metro area city has the same problem. Loganville on Monday said that an attack on a city computer may have compromised personal information.
A post on the city's Facebook page spelled out there is no evidence the hackers took information that would include Social Security numbers and financial account numbers but acknowledged whoever pulled off the attack, would have had access to such information.
http://accesswdun.com/article/2018/3/652779/loganville-city-government-victim-of-cyber-attack
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