Facebook use is ubiquitous–you can even “Like” this post on Facebook right from our blog.  As most people know, the default account settings in Facebook are very weak in terms of security and extremely permissive in terms of privacy (facebook doesn’t really believe in privacy).

For an in depth guide to Facebook’s settings and their security and privacy impact, we recommend reviewing Facebook Security Best Practices by Sophos.

Here, we provide a set of very important and simple changes you can make to your facebook account to significantly improve security and privacy.  You can think of these suggestions as the “low hanging fruit”.

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LuxSci’s facebook page incorporates all of our LuxSci FYI Blog postings.  If you use facebook, you can become a fan of LuxSci and keep informed of LuxSci happenings via your facebook interface.

Become a fan of LuxSci on facebook.

LuxSci has supported login to Web-based email and administration consoles since January, 2009. OpenID allows users with logins to other websites to use those logins to access their LuxSci accounts as well — thus needing to remember fewer passwords, or to have enhanced security.

Now, in addition to permitting any generic OpenID login, LuxSci has specific OpenID login support for logins from Google, Windows Live ID, myOpenID, Yahoo!, Facebook, AOL, flickr, VeriSign Personal Identity Portal, Livejournal, Blogger, and WordPress.

These specific options make it easier and faster to use OpenID logins from these providers.

To use an OpenID to login to your LuxSci account, you need to login normally first, go to “Account > My Profile > OpenIDs”, and then add your OpenID login to your account as an authorized means of logging in for you.