Thanx Janay!: In the know

Beware of Social Networking thieves

Your personal information is not as safe and secure as you might have thought. Cyber thieves are rapidly hijacking social networking sites of innocent users.

CNN is reporting that 3,200 users have reported account hijacking since 2006 to the Internet Crime Complaint Center, a partnership between the FBI, the National White Collar Crime Center and the Bureau of Justice Assistance.

Here's the logistics: BE AWARE OF LINKS SENT TO YOUR EMAIL ON THESE ACCOUNTS. It starts off as a simple email, within this email a link is attached and its purpose is for you to click on it. Once your inside the site, your suppose to give all your personal contact information in order for you to receive whatever the website is offering you.

It's known as a phishing attack or malware, phishing can infiltrate users' accounts without their consent.

Once the account is compromised, the thieves can infiltrate the list of friends or contacts and repeat the attack on subsequent victims, according to CNN.com. Social networking sites show there is ample opportunity to find more victims; the average Facebook user has 120 friends on the site.

The best advice I can give a social networking user is to beaware of what you click on and who its sent from before you click.

Also, if your on Facebook, hey have developed a automated system that can detect compromised accounts. They spot and freeze accounts that are sending high numbers of messages to their friends.

Another very important tip is to double check URL's. This can prevent you from entering into a phony site.

Delay to deploy 3,500 troops

The troops who were expecting to deploy, won't be deployed after all.

CNN is reporting that the military is trying to draw down troop levels in the war-torn country of Afghanistan.

The 1st Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division will not replace a North Carolina National Guard unit already in Iraq, Lt. Col. Eric Butterbaugh told CNN.

The combat was to deploy January 2010.

Since the start of the year 250 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan.

The United States plans to withdraw all its combat troops from Iraq by August, leaving 50,000 in advisory roles. Those advisers are to leave by the end of 2011, according to CNN.com.