Related News: NSA pretended to be Facebook to infect millions of computers

Posted on March 13, 2014 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Fox News published an article titled NSA pretended to be Facebook to infect millions of computers.

As part of its efforts to install malware on “millions” of computers worldwide, the National Security Agency impersonated Facebook to trick targets into downloading malicious code.

“In some cases the NSA has masqueraded as a fake Facebook server, using the social media site as a launching pad to infect a target’s computer and exfiltrate files from a hard drive,” reports The Intercept in its latest expose based on top-secret documents obtained by Edward Snowden.

“[The NSA] has sent out spam emails laced with the malware, which can be tailored to covertly record audio from a computer’s microphone and take snapshots with its webcam. The hacking systems have also enabled the NSA to launch cyberattacks by corrupting and disrupting file downloads or denying access to websites.”

Source: Fox News

Related News: Missing Wetumpka girl found safe; TX man faces multiple sex charges

Posted on March 5, 2014 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Missing Wetumpka girl found safe; TX man faces multiple sex charges.

Authorities say Stephens met the girl after talking to her through an online social network. He hitchhiked to Alabama to meet her.

“We are looking at the mistakes we made,” Daniel Grecu, explained. “You need to know who they are talking to on Facebook, what their passwords are. That’s a must as parents. If you give them freedom now, you can put them in harms way, that’s obvious now,” Grecu added.

Source: WSFA

Related News: Student-teacher sex: Are more female teachers being charged?

Posted on March 5, 2014 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. AL.com published an article titled Student-teacher sex: Are more female teachers being charged?

All of the accused are women. In fact, about one-third of the cases of possibly inappropriate relationships investigated by Alabama education officials in 2013 involved women.

“It may not be happening more, but now there’s more punishment,” said Josh Klapow, a clinical psychologist and associate professor at UAB’s School of Public Health. “We don’t know those incidents that aren’t being caught and aren’t being reported.”

Social media, authorities say, helps to fuel the fire.

Source: AL.com

Related News: Ozark murder involved fake “weed”, $10 debt

Posted on March 4, 2014 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Dothan Eagle published an article titled Ozark murder involved fake “weed”, $10 debt.

Records show the person to whom Markoff owed the $10 was also one of the last people to call him before he was shot.

Police have already said they believe Knight provided the gun for the shooting, but that the 15-year-old juvenile actually pulled the trigger. Police have also said two other people apparently waited down the street in a vehicle when the shooting happened.

Police also said information technology, such as social media, helped police develop the suspects in the murder.

Source: The Dothan Eagle

Related News: Russell County Middle School talks cyber bullying

Posted on December 6, 2013 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WRBL published an article titled Russell County Middle School talks cyber bullying.

Hundreds of Russell County Middle School students crowded the cafeteria this afternoon to get a lesson on the Internet. Specifically, to learn more about the dangers and consequences of cyber-bullying. Administration said this behavior generally starts around the middle school age.

Faculty at the school said middle school students are normally trying to find themselves, and their social place. Unfortunately, this can sometimes lead to bullying behavior on social media sites and phone applications, and the consequences can be costly.

“I use kik and snap chat,” said Ty’Kerria Grey a 7th grade student.

These social media apps along with instagram, vine, and sites like facebook and twitter are more and more popular among the middle school crowd. But use of these applications also invite new ways to bully others.

Source: WRBL

Related News: APD turns to social media to find burglar

Posted on September 3, 2013 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Andalusia Star News published an article titled APD turns to social media to find burglar.

A Tuesday burglary prompted Andalusia police to turn to social media for help Wednesday.

And it worked. After posting a photo of dark-haired man inside what appeared to be a home earlier in the morning, the tips came in that led to the arrest of 34-year-old Jason Grover Fillingim, Sgt. Paul Dean said.

Source: Andalusia Star News

Related News: Anger mounts after Facebook’s ‘shadow profiles’ leak in bug

Posted on June 25, 2013 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. ZDNet published an article titled Anger mounts after Facebook’s ‘shadow profiles’ leak in bug.

The personal information leaked by the bug is information that had not been given to Facebook by the users – it is data Facebook has been compiling on its users behind closed doors, without their consent.

A growing number of Facebook users are furious and demand to know who saw private information they had expressly not given to Facebook.

Facebook was accidentally combining user’s shadow profiles with their Facebook profiles and spitting the merged information out in one big clump to people they ‘had some connection to’ who downloaded an archive of their account with Facebook’s Download Your Information (DYI) tool.

Source: ZDNet

Related News: Alabama state senator’s wife demands possibly fake women stop soliciting her husband on Facebook

Posted on June 10, 2013 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. AL.com published an article titled Alabama state senator’s wife demands possibly fake women stop soliciting her husband on Facebook.

In a post Monday on a Facebook account belonging to Alabama state Sen. Shadrack McGill, R-Woodville, a poster identifying herself as McGill’s wife said women have used the social media network to approach her husband “multiple times” since he was first elected in 2010.

“I have been silent for long enough!!” a person who identified herself as Heather McGill wrote. “NO MORE! Multiple times since being in office he has gotten emails from women (who may not even be real) inviting him to explore, also sending pictures of themselves.”

Source: AL.com