security posts, articles, and infographics

Spying For Security? A Closer Look at #CISPA, "Big Brother" of #SOPA

April 27, 2012 by Tammy Kahn Fennell
with 266 views

[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]

10 Tips for Improved Security while using Social Media

March 16, 2012 by Gopi Mamidipudi
with 2,601 views

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]

Phishing and Cloning - Online Banking and Identity Theft Fears Multiplied

December 8, 2011 by Elaine Rigoli
with 208 views

"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 Personal Data Hacked. Who Knows Where You Live Now?

November 3, 2011 by Nikki Peters
with 736 views

"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]

Facebook Goes "Phishing"

October 4, 2011 by Nikki Peters
with 165 views

"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]

Back To School Privacy Tips

September 8, 2011 by Brad Friedman
with 347 views

" 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]

Geolocation Drama: Microsoft Curbs WiFi Location Database

August 10, 2011 by Elaine Rigoli
with 355 views

"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]

Security, Privacy and the Future of the Cloud

August 5, 2011 by stephanie frasco
with 317 views

"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]

Why Your Social Media Passwords Are Putting You At Risk

August 5, 2011 by stephanie frasco
with 514 views

“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]

Social Media Secured: Protecting You, Your Employees and Your Assets

June 23, 2011 by Hongwen Zhang
with 690 views

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]

Social Media: A Challenge for Regulated Industries

May 2, 2011 by Marketing Leadership Council
with 636 views

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]

How Will Social Captchas Affect Facebook Connections?

February 1, 2011 by Dave Fleet
with 755 views

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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Firesheep and social network security: What you need to know

November 10, 2010 by No-IP Blog
with 3,859 views

Social network security is all the talk this month, as Firefox recently launched it’s Firesheep plugin. In a nutshell, the new plugin makes it possible for users to hijack other people’s social network connections if they are using a public Wifi connection. How does it work? Most social... [read more]

Social Media Security: Firesheep and other scary new developments

November 8, 2010 by Darren Cahr
with 3,202 views

As always, there have been a variety of new stories swirling around social media and its discontents over the past week. This week, the big stories have been all about security: Firesheep: A software developer created a Firefox extension that allows users to easily abscond with cookie information over Wi-Fi networks. The... [read more]

The Challenges of Social Networking Security

September 9, 2010 by Dave Higgins
with 863 views

On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog. That famous New Yorker cartoon by Peter Steiner from 1993 illustrates a fundamental issue faced by today’s social networking sites: are the members who they say they are? We’ve learned a lot about participation in social networks via the internet over the last few years. We know... [read more]

Small businesses and Social Media: Should you be concerned about security?

April 13, 2010 by Taylor Ellwood
with 724 views

I read an article the other day that explained that for most small businesses there is a lot of fear around social media. A lot of the concern has more to do with potential security issues that can occur. Certainly, with the internet, regardless of whether it's web 2.0 or not, there is always some concern about security, file... [read more]

KPMG points to risks implementing blog/wiki

July 12, 2007 by dahowlett
with 869 views

KPMG has a whitepaper pointing to some of the benefits and hurdles to implementing ‘Enterprise 2.0â€² technologies. In the press release, Crispin O'Brien, KPMG's head of technology is quoted as saying:“While Enterprise 2.0 clearly has the potential to improve business efficiency, communication and encourage innovation and... [read more]