As Facebook becomes the window to the Web for its more than 500 million users, the security of the social network has never been a hotter topic. While it can be hard to make a Facebook account completely hack-proof, you can do a lot.
Roughly twice a month I tweet a warning about a new Facebook scam. Earlier this month, it was the admonishment not to click on links promising to show you Osama Bin Laden's dead body. Leaving aside whether or not seeing that kind of carnage is a good idea, the existence of the link should have set off alarm bells in anyone who was following the news: The U.S. Government was not releasing those photos. The link was, naturally, bogus and potentially dangerous. Even the FBI got in on the action, warning Facebook users about the existence of the malicious links.