Fortifying Facebook: Privacy Settings You Need to Know

In this video tutorial, we explore Facebook’s settings, explaining what each feature does and showing users how to configure their profile and ensure privacy.

This is the second part of our two-part video tutorial series we’ve been publishing over the last few days, in which we explore Facebook’s various privacy and security settings in ten minutes or less. Today we are going to take a look at the privacy features offered by the world’s largest social network, explaining what each of the features does and offering advice on how to configure your Facebook profile in a way that promotes privacy. Part one of the series focused on security, and you should definitely check it out if you haven’t done so yet.

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Cracked in under a minute: (nearly) every other password

We’ve revisited our study on the crackability of real-world passwords leaked on the dark web — originally conducted two years ago. The findings are sobering: nearly every other password can be cracked in under a minute, and three out of five take less than an hour. How can we move away from insecure passwords?