Blog Posts Tagged with "Social Media"
Ultimate Breach of Patient Privacy: Real-Time Death on Video
August 29, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
As social media becomes part of the continuum of interaction in the physical and virtual worlds, privacy becomes an issue of discretionary disclosure control. Online privacy and patient privacy will evolve into a market for products and services with stratified pricing, packaging and product positioning...
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If Facial Recognition Creeps You Out, What You Can Do About It
August 24, 2012 Added by:Theresa Payton
Facebook’s software isn’t just about placing a name with a face. If you think about how people use the like button, connect to groups, connect to each other, a tagged photo gives additional context. Hackers would love to have this information about you...
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Marketing to the Cynical, Skeptical, and Jaded
August 24, 2012 Added by:Jack Daniel
Words like engagement and community are overused by charlatans, marketing gurus, and social media experts- but if you cut the crap and actually engage the community, people will pay attention. Influencer is another abused term, but some people have more of a voice in the community than others. Ignoring people who aren’t ready to buy could be a very bad idea...
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Misinformation and Manipulation in the Age of Social Media
August 21, 2012 Added by:Ben Rothke
Terms such as revolutionary, and groundbreaking are often used in reference to the web and social media. The web and social media have also been so for scammers, thieves, liars, manipulators, and the like who use social media in a big way. To avoid being caught in their lair, it is imperative to know the risks...
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Illinois Bars Employers from Obtaining Social Media Credentials
August 20, 2012 Added by:David Navetta
Although privacy advocates and federal regulators and legislators have primarily been focusing on consumer privacy issues, such as behavioral advertising and data mining, the significant changes in workplace privacy protections demand continued vigilance from employers...
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To Tweet, or Not to Tweet, That is the Question...
August 19, 2012 Added by:Christopher Laing
Activities that threaten your business are the downloading and opening of attachments and Internet files that contain malicious software, and the electronic delivery/distribution of business sensitive information without encryption. This may done either accidentally or deliberately by a disgruntled employee...
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Ask the Experts: Facebook Security for Teenagers
August 14, 2012 Added by:Brent Huston
"Watch the scams and traps that are strewn like land mines throughout the site. Watch the free give-aways, be wary of clicking on pictures and videos and look carefully at any messages that contain links or suggest web sites to visit. Also, be VERY careful about ‘friends’ of friends..."
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Infographic: The Social Media Side of Incident Response...
August 13, 2012 Added by:Neira Jones
It seems that my previous post on the social media side of incident response attracted some attention and I thank everyone for their feedback. This prompted me to explore the brave new world of infographics... So here we go, my first foray into what is for me uncharted territory...
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Online Threats That Will Throw You Off the Security Balance Beam
August 09, 2012 Added by:Kelly Colgan
We can’t sugarcoat it, because there’s more at stake for online users than going for gold or settling for silver. One blip on the beam or pratfall on the pommel can make a bank-account balance drop faster than an icy judge’s score. And it’ll take more than a Wheaties box to build it back...
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The Unbearable Riskiness of Being Social...
August 06, 2012 Added by:Neira Jones
With social networks transforming the rules of business engagement, many businesses think the biggest risk of social media is the brand and reputational damage that could result from negative interactions or the potential disclosure of proprietary or sensitive information...
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Do You Use Foursquare?
August 05, 2012 Added by:Allan Pratt, MBA
If we don’t continue to raise issues about online privacy and security, websites and their companies’ leadership will continue to demand access to our confidential information under the pretense of doing business, or in scarier terms, doing business as usual. One website that causes concern is Foursquare...
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Facebook, the Poisoned Network: 83 Million Questionable Profiles
August 03, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
There are bots creating a significant number of fake profiles, which are managed by machines capable of interacting with each other and with real users, thus changing the "sentiment" and "conversation" on a large-scale, as well as altering the social graph to preclude meaningful correlations of data...
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Cyber Criminals Prey on Worried Parents
August 02, 2012 Added by:Theresa Payton
Cyberthieves are trolling the internet for information and with a convincing phone call trying to trick parents out of thousands of dollars. It sounds like this scam would be easy to spot but it’s so scary, so emotional, and happens so often even Western Union employees are trained to ask questions...
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EU Weighs in on Face Recognition Applications
July 29, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Face recognition in online applications is particularly problematic as personal data is sometimes used out of context by employers and law enforcement. Therefore, European privacy officials’ opinion recommending various practices for these applications could not have come at a better time...
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Take Social Media Privacy into Your Own Hands
July 23, 2012 Added by:Bill Mathews
I've gotten in a lot of arguments lately about the end-user side of technology - privacy. Many in the security industry already know most of the things people are discovering, and have screamed warnings from the mountaintops to the folks below. Alas, this is the woe of being a security engineer...
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NLRB Issues Report on Employer Social Media Policies
July 19, 2012 Added by:David Navetta
Specifically, in the latest report, among other issues, the NLRB thoroughly discusses prohibitions on disclosing confidential and proprietary information, posting photographs and other content that depicts other people, and requiring reporting of policy violations. Here are some important take-aways...
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- Today’s Top Public Cloud Security Threats …And How to Thwart Them
- Influence Operation Uses Old News of New Purposes
- Spring Cleaning: Why Companies Must Spring Clean Out Their Social Media Accounts This Season
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- The Promise and Perils of Artificial Intelligence
- Utilising the Benefits of Industrial Robots Securely
- On the Horizon: Parasitic Malware Will Feast on Critical Infrastructure
- Thoughts on DoS Attack on US Electric Utility
- Network of Fake Social Accounts Serves Iranian Interests
- Researchers Analyze the Linux Variant of Winnti Malware