How to Protect Your Social Networks from Identity theft, Scams, and Internet Fraud

Today marks the tenth anniversary of Safer Internet Day, a not-so-fun, but very important holiday for reminding ourselves to check our privacy controls and use the internet more responsibly. It's called "safer" rather than "safe" because the only true form of protection from fraud is abstinence -- and who's going to abstain from using the internet? No one we know. Here's how to protect yourself from scammers, spammers, and hackers in 2013.

Today marks the tenth anniversary of Safer Internet Day, a not-so-fun, but very important holiday for reminding ourselves to check our privacy controls and use the internet more responsibly. It’s called “safer” rather than “safe” because the only true form of protection from fraud is abstinence — and who’s going to abstain from using the internet?

No one we know.  Here’s how to protect yourself from scammers, spammers, and hackers in 2013.

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