Experts offer tips for keeping you safe on Facebook
November 04, 2009 17:51 PM
Sixteen-year old Keegan Donahue and his sister, 15-year-old Rylee, are active Facebook users.
Their parents, Mike and Andrea, also sign onto Facebook and monitor the family activity.
They were surprised to learn how vulnerable they were.
"Part of the reason I have a Facebook page myself is that I can be friends with them and see what they're putting on there and who there friends are," says Andrea.
The Donahues agreed to have us security check their Facebook pages, but we used a covert method.
When we sat down with them for a family interview, we asked if anyone knows Cindy Jefferson. Andrea, Keegan and Rylee all said "no."
When we informed them that all three accepted someone named Cindy Jefferson as a friend the day before, they were shocked.
It turns out they thought the stranger might be a friend from another community they lived in years ago, so they accepted, intending to check Cindy Jefferson out more closely in the days ahead.
Cindy Jefferson was actually created out of thin air by two guys in a small office.
Matt Churchill and Jim O'Gorman work for Continuum Worldwide, an Omaha company hired by banks and corporations to keep hackers out of their computer systems.
The good news is they can be trusted.
Churchill knows firsthand through his work about Web users who cannot be trusted.
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