If you use Facebook, you need to understand that every single third-party company and individual who makes those cute little games and gadgets gets all your personal data for no good reason. And I guarantee you there is essentially no security on the servers where that data is stored. Even if you delete your Facebook account, all your personal data is still out there in the hands of total strangers, unprotected and waiting to be stolen. On top of this, Facebook is still being criticized for having horribly inadequate data protection of their own, so you should be using fake personal info on the site for a whole bunch of reasons.
Anyway, here's their security page - Facebook.com/security.
And user safety page - Facebook.com/safety.
And inadequate - privacy policy.
Twitter users, you should be checking the spam/scam alert page.
How many of these email & phone scams listed on the RCMP Phonebusters site have you come across?
Here's a great internet intrusion/attack testing tool. It checks your computer's ability to deflect and ignore communication attempts. It's called Shields Up, from security company Gibson Research. No downloads or anything are required, get simple File Sharing and Common Port vulnerability reports in about 10 seconds.
(MySpace is beyond help as far spam, profile hacking, and identity theft goes, so I'm not wasting my time putting links here. If you still use that site for some reason, good luck.)
