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How safe is your website from hackers? Check out these security tips to make sure you're not leaving yourself wide open for a similar kind of attack. One of the simplest ways to prevent your site from being hacked and having malicious code added to your pages is to keep your WordPress installation current.[read more]

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Social media accounts are becoming extraordinarily important to many of those who use them and yet their security is often ridiculously weak. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other major social platforms are starting to make the kind of changes that take account security much more seriously.[read more]

Evernote is just the latest in a series of high-profile security breaches or attempts. We have talked many times about the importance of using secure passwords and implementing a common-sense approach to what information you store on the cloud.[read more]

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How well do you know your social network? With the way our online identities are increasingly linked, all it takes is one less-than-discriminating friend in your circle for a hacker to gain access to and destroy your online life.[read more]

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With the announcement of BlackBerry 10, many are wondering if the company can, once again, offer businesses something that no other phone can. BlackBerry has always offered a level of security that many businesses felt was worth investing in. Even if the phones were annoying and cumbersome, the fact that BlackBerry encrypted e-mails meant that company secrets were less likely to leak out.[read more]

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It’s great to hear that companies are taking the security of our private information and access to our accounts more seriously, but it shouldn’t end there. There are steps that you should be taking to protect yourself as well. Here are 5 simple steps that you should take to protect both your and your company’s different online accounts.[read more]

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It has started to become a norm to hire skilled hackers to monitor the company’s security system – for example, BT Managed Security Solutions enable their customers to protect their system by offering the service of hackers find out if there are any issues with it. Similarly, Facebook is taking help from white-hat hackers to look after its security systems – stating categorically the ethical standards that need to be followed.[read more]

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[Editor's Note - CISPA was passed by the House] "We must be allowed to spy on Facebook and Twitter..." In the UK, Sir David Omand, former Permanent Secretary and Security and Intelligence Co-ordinator in the Cabinet Office, says criminals are increasingly making use of online social networks such as Twitter and Facebook to communicate. Meanwhile in the US, debates around CISPA are heating up...[read more]

A site like Facebook allows and encourages users to create their own apps, games and commerce sites that can be used by other members. Such apps could potentially access a lot of your unprotected data. Similarly in recent reports it was stated that Google, Apple and apps on Android, iOS have access to all your data on the smartphone.[read more]

"European banking protection firm Affinion International conducted a survey of online bank customers and found a whopping 85% of respondents are worried about online fraud. Not only that, but 42% of bank customers polled said they have been fraud victims!"[read more]

"Facebook has made a statement arguing that the experiment was unrealistic due to the fact that IP addresses used by the SocialBots had come from a trusted university source, whilst a real spam attack would have come from IP addresses used by real-life criminals and would have raised alarm bells. Facebook also claimed that they disabled more of the fake SocialBot accounts than the researchers claimed they had."[read more]

"While Facebook does currently warn users that they are going to a new website upon clicking on links, no distinction is made between harmless and malicious ones, so this new feature should really help limit spam and corruption making users aware of the dangers that await them."[read more]

" Today’s students are required to send personal information over the Internet in order to use academic online tools. Today’s students are also incredibly active social network users. With all that in mind, some thoughts about privacy are in order."[read more]

"Just two weeks ago, CNET called out Microsoft yet again, accusing the software giant of collecting the locations of millions of laptops, cell phones, and other WiFi devices around the world, making them available online without taking any privacy precautions."[read more]

"You just have to look at how much private information people are willing to share on social networks or how quickly cloud storage services have gotten mainstream usage, and combine that with the fact that most people tend to use the same (most of the time not strong) password everywhere"[read more]

“SocialMediaSuzy’s” password for Hootsuite is different than “SocialMediaJohnny’s” password for Hootsuite, yet both can access the brand’s Twitter. Unless each one of these passwords is extremely secure, they can be hacked, putting the brand at serious risk.[read more]

Corporations are facing a growing risk as consumer grade tools and services suchas blogs, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn enter into the IT security landscape. Webservices, Internet applications and other consumer online products are rapidly distortingthe lines between corporate and personal usage, while malware outbreaks and data losscontinue to snowball out of control.[read more]

It is true, marketers in highly regulated industries, like financial services, have less creative license than those in other fields. After all, rates and returns are what they are – no room for embellishment. All outgoing communications need to be precisely crafted and vetted by the legal department to ensure they comply with the letter and spirit of the law. The idea of increasing the volume and informality of consumer/customer contact makes many financial institutions feel a bit woozy.[read more]

Facebook is experimenting with enhancing security around user accounts through a socially-enabled login process. Essentially, instead of seeing disguised words, users will see photos of their “friends” and be asked to identify them.[read more]

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