In recent interviews with a lifestyle blog and a finance blog, Mark Grabowski offered tips on how to protect your privacy on social media sites.

Ask Away Blog and StumbleForward quote several tips from Grabowski, a professor who teaches internet law & ethics: “Cybercrime is a growing problem, and there’s a high chance you’ll be a victim in your lifetime — if you haven’t already ... One of the biggest mistakes you can make is posting about your vacation while you are still there. Someone searching on social media who happens to see your vacation post might decide that while you’re away your home is ideal for looting ... Cybercriminals may impersonate people you know online. For example, Twitter has been overtaken with accounts that impersonate people who promise thousands of bitcoins in return for a small amount of a cryptocurrency to fraudulent accounts."

Mark Grabowski was recently quoted in a Newsday story on New York state's proposed new data security law -- the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act.

If signed into law by the governor, the legislation would expand the scope of information that could trigger a breach notification to affected consumers, and it would require businesses to have reasonable data security safeguards in place.

 “These are basic measures that should have been implemented long ago, but New York is ahead of many other states at this point,” said Grabowski, who teaches cyber law at Adelphi University.