Related News: Montgomery Sheriff’s name used in Internet so-called “scam”

Posted on May 18, 2012 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Montgomery Sheriff’s name used in Internet so-called “scam”.

Marshall says the scammers are calling victims, posing as the Montgomery County Sheriff. They threaten them with an arrest warrant, unless they send money. Marshall says the mindset is easy to recognize, “They instill fear in this people. I don’t want to be arrested, so I better send money.”

Corporal Kenneth Gordon is investigating the so-called scam for the Sheriff’s Office. Gordon puts it simply, “It’s a scam, it’s been a scam since the beginning.”

Source: WSFA

Related News: Man shot in buttock over Facebook dispute

Posted on May 18, 2012 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Man shot in buttock over Facebook dispute.

The Tuscaloosa News reports that a 22-year-old man was driving when he thought he saw a man with whom he’d been having an ongoing Facebook argument.

Source: WSFA

ACFI Recognized as a 2012 Honors Laureate Award Recipient by Computerworld

Posted on May 14, 2012 by ACFI

The Alabama Computer Forensics Institute was recognized for its Cyberkids Initiative as a 2012 Honors Laureate Award recipient by Computerworld.

Complete details are available in the Troy University press release:

TROY earns Laureate honors for internet safety program (March 19, 2012, Troy University)

Related News: Facebook Privacy: 5 Most Ignored Mistakes

Posted on May 4, 2012 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. InformationWeek published an article titled Facebook Privacy: 5 Most Ignored Mistakes.

Facebook no longer represents that it offers privacy as a matter of policy, like some other companies do. It states outright that it will use your data. It has a Data Use Policy instead of a Privacy Policy.

But consider the dictionary definition of privacy: 1) The state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people; 2) The state of being free from public attention. If that’s your gold standard, then you cannot use Facebook or any other online service for that matter, at least not without privacy-protecting technology. Once you venture online, once you share, you’re talking about something less than privacy. Online services may talk about how they respect privacy, but they should really be talking about data usage and sharing.

Source: InformationWeek

Related News: Social media creating issues for school systems

Posted on April 27, 2012 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Dothan Eagle published an article titled Social media creating issues for school systems.

As social media use becomes more widespread, school systems are increasingly having to deal with issues created by student and teacher interaction via sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

In two recent local cases of alleged inappropriate relationships between students and teachers, interaction between students and teachers via social networks is a factor in the cases.

Source: Dothan Eagle