social media
Would you let a spammer give you a root canal? Sure you would!
When someone contacts you entirely for their benefit, out of the blue, and pitches you a concept that is peculiar at best, and outright alarming at worst...
...you really do find yourself thinking, "Why? WHY? What can the sender POSSIBLY hope to get out of this?"
FLAMING RETORT: Eleven UK government employees sacked over social media use at work!
The UK's Guardian newspaper laid into the Department for Work and Pensions yesterday with a story entitled "Eleven work and pensions civil servants sacked for using Twitter or Facebook".
Where does your organisation sit on the social media fence?
Would you insure your Twitter or Facebook account against trolls and hackers?
Would you pay a small, monthly fee to help cover the costs to restore your reputation, get your stolen identity back, and bury the most noxious content manufactured by trolls to torment you?
Today's Special - Honesty in soliciting Facebook Likes puts truth on the social media menu!
How do you know whether the proud owner of a bunch of Likes is being honest about how those Likes were gleaned?
Paul Ducklin investigates a case of commercial honesty in respect of social media.
How to teach tomorrow's doctors about social media privacy
Social media and health care privacy may not mix well, but telling the trainees who have grown up with social media to simply "abstain – or else!" doesn't help students structure their behaviours in the digital age.
Employers on track to get more nosey with employees' social media lives
By 2015, 60% of employers are likely to be eavesdropping on our social media selves to make sure our e-blabbing isn't poking security holes into their outfits, according to a recent report.
Doctors shouldn't buddy up with patients on Facebook or Twitter, hospitals warn
Hospitals, worried about lack of professionalism and inadvertent leaking of confidential data, are warning doctors not to set up relationships with patients on Facebook and Twitter.
Social media, the ultimate career-squasher
A new survey finds that 56% are likely to check out the social media profiles of potential employees.
If you want to avoid limiting your career progression, it might be time to clean-up your social networking accounts.
MyPermissions offers one-stop shop to clean up social media permissions
MyPermissions makes it simple to manage what applications and websites can access your online accounts.
Maybe it's time to get into the habit of regularly checking what you've given permission to, and whether you still want to grant a third party app or site access to your account?
FTC settles with Facebook, alleges promises weren't kept
The FTC has announced a tentative agreement with Facebook to address alleged privacy abuses the company inflicted on its users. Does the agreement go far enough?
Facebook nears settlement with FTC on privacy opt-in
The settlement addresses charges that the company misled users about how it would use their personal information. Facebook would be required to obtain user consent before making “material retroactive changes” but wouldn’t have to change current policies.
You are what you Tweet - and I'll sue you to prove it
Social networking is big news, even for traditional print publications.
Even a medium as casual and as abbreviated as Twitter can get you into deep trouble.
Monetization of the Internet - User choice
When I started working in the computer security field 10 years ago, I would never have imagined that future battle lines would be drawn between legitimate online businesses and privacy warriors. Today aside from battling spammers, criminals, and ID thieves, Read more…
How Twitter spam steals from Google, Yahoo!
Scammers have been devising ways to ride on someone else's coattails since the dawn of time. With every new technology they find another way to make money from nothing. Today I am going to highlight a method that involves Twitter, Read more…
Social media security made easy
I just returned from RSA 2010, where one of the most discussed topics was social media security. Those of us in the business use the term social media quite frequently, but what we are really referring to is Facebook, Twitter, Read more…
Educate your users about social networking threats with our free toolkit
Sally in the marketing department has put together a really handy package, which will help you educate your users about social networking threats. And the best news of all is that it's completely free! Tell us all about it Sally.. Read more…
Password safety - Grader.com saved by Twitter OAuth
The news is finally out as to how worried Twitter.Grader.com users need to be over the hack I reported last week. Dharmesh Shah blogged on the lessons he learned from the attacks on his site. It turns out that the Read more…
Twitter.Grader.com hacked, tweets sent for SEO purposes
The onslaught against social media continued today when someone managed to hack into Grader.com, a service to measure inbound marketing leads from Twitter, Facebook, and other media. Around 11:30 am PST this morning I started getting some tweets that were Read more…
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