How to stop Facebook from showing strangers your personal dataSocial engineering hacks are the way of the future. Don't let your data give a hacker an opening.
Facebook: It's the social media giant we'd love to quit, but — for whatever reason — we keep on being drawn back in.
A few years back, I reworked my Facebook account to lock down my personal information; after spotting an excellent PSA from Cifas in my Twitter feed this morning, I figured I'd walk everyone through the steps I took to keep Facebook from accidentally broadcasting valuable data to the world.
What's so valuable about my Facebook profile?
Social engineering hacks rely on personal information to gain access to your bank, credit cards, email accounts, cell phone accounts, and other potentially risky avenues. These hackers often don't even need your password: They can get these companies to reset it by knowing some other combination of data.
Your birthday, college attended, current job, pet's name, boyfriend's date of birth — all of thes...
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How to stop Facebook from showing strangers your personal data
