WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In the race to attract cybersecurity experts to protect the government’s computer networks, the Department of Homeland Security has a handicap money can’t fix. Navigating the federal hiring system takes many months, which is too long in the fast-paced tech world. “Even when somebody is patriotic […] .
Category: Social Media & Crime
Cyber attack “war game” to test London banks on November 12
LONDON (Reuters) – Thousands of staff across dozens of London financial firms will be put through a "war games" scenario on Tuesday to test how well they can handle a major cyber attack, people familiar with the matter said. In one of the largest exercises of its kind in […]
Twitter UK boosts anti-abuse tools after threats against women
By Estelle Shirbon LONDON | Sat Aug 3, 2013 9:50am EDT LONDON (Reuters) – The British arm of Twitter apologized on Saturday to a group of high-profile women who have been threatened with death and rape on the micro-blogging site, and announced measures to make it easier for users […]
Overcoming Fear: How to Break Through and Get Stuff Done
By Michael Stelzner Published August 2, 2013 Is fear holding you back in your business? Are you wondering what you can do to face your fears? To learn about the kinds of fears we deal with as marketers, I interview two small businesses owners for this 52nd episode of […]
Russia’s leading social network banned by mistake
MOSCOW | Fri May 24, 2013 1:12pm EDT (Reuters) – Russia’s leading online social network was briefly banned on Friday, in a move dismissed as a “mistake” but which follows intensifying official pressure on the company as President Vladimir Putin consolidates his power. VKontakte (www.vk.com), Europe’s largest homegrown social […]
Keeping your corporate social media accounts secure
Takeaway: Does your company have official social media accounts like Twitter or Facebook? How do you protect them from unauthorized access? Get a few tips here and take our poll on security measures. In the past few weeks, we have seen news stories about Twitter accounts of large organizations […]
10 Ways Social Media is Transforming our Culture and World
It’s 2012, and yet I feel more calm about our future than ever before. The Internet has saved our asses, and we should celebrate. I’ve been on the Web for a long time, but every once in a while I have one of those tremendous moments when I have […]
Google’s Inactive Account Manager heightens enterprise awareness for securing data
Takeaway: Preventing the commingling of company and personal data means focusing on securing the company data. Google’s new Inactive Account Manager feature has added options and predictability to the process of distributing digital assets when someone dies, or when someone simply stops using the service for a preset period […]
Why are Indian women being attacked on social media?
What does a top woman journalist do when she is threatened regularly with gang rape and stripping on Twitter? And what about when her teenage daughter’s name and details of her class and school are tweeted too? "It was very disturbing. I didn’t know what to do. So for […]
Twitter Hacks Force Companies to Confront Security on Social Media
While most Americans were winding up their holiday weekends last Monday, the phones at the Vancouver headquarters of HootSuite, a social media management company, began to ring. Burger King’s Twitter account had just been hacked. The company’s logo had been replaced by a McDonald’s logo, and rogue announcements began […]
Social Media Led Authorities to a Benghazi Terror Suspect
It may be the biggest break in the international manhunt for the Benghazi killers and it’s all thanks to social media. This morning, The Daily Beast’s Eli Lake reports that Tunisian authorities are holding a man named Ali Ani al-Harzi suspected of participating in the Sept. 11 attacks that […]
Hoe terroristen en criminelen social media en internet gebruiken
De UNDOC ( United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) heeft eergisteren een enorm leerzaam 142 pagina’s tellend rapport over internet en social media gebruik voor en door criminelen. Facebook wordt onder andere gebruikt voor het verkrijgen van informatie omtrent doelen en veiligheidsprocedures die door mensen onbewust worden […]