Screen Shot 2014-05-22 at 8.27.58 PM We love setting goals for improvement here at the Buffer blog , and one of our most recent challenges has been this: Every post gets an original image. This might not sound like such a tall task until you consider that Courtney and I are journalism […] .
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7 Reasons You Should Unplug This Summer
7 Reasons You Should Unplug This Summer Image: Mashable Between smartphones , laptops , tablets and apps , technology influences almost every aspect of our lives. We live in a world where we forget an off switch exists. We get anxious when we leave our personal devices at home, […] .
Report: NSA Collects Millions of Images Each Day for Facial Recognition
Written and audio messages aren’t the only forms of communication the government appears to be gobbling up. The National Security Agency is collecting “huge numbers” of photos from emails, text messages, social media, videoconferences and other forms of communication for facial recognition purposes, according to classified documents obtained by […] .
Drone Beat: Delivering Drinks for $20K, Hunting Hurricanes and More
The U.S. government uses them to bomb alleged terrorists in far-away places. Tech companies like Amazon, Google and Facebook are all toying with the idea of using them, and now they’re a photographer’s secret weapon. Drones are a big part of our lives, whether we see them or not. […] .
Police Use Twitter, ‘Bait Bikes’ to Combat Theft
In San Francisco , one Twitter account is watching over your bikes. Officer Matt Friedman of the San Francisco Police Department is behind the Anti-Bike Theft Unit , a program that utilizes Twitter and GPS trackers to thwart bike thefts in the city. The main tools in Friedman’s utility […] .
OAuth and OpenID Are Not the New Heartbleed
Breathless reports of a new security flaw affecting OpenID and OAuth — the technology that powers the identity logins for services such as Facebook, Microsoft, Google and LinkedIn — hit the news Friday. Dubbed “Covert Redirect,” the flaw could enable phishing sites to grab a user’s login information. The […] .
Morning Security Brief: Arkansas Tornado, Terrorism Concerns, Passport Security, and Hacking Satellites
► A powerful tornado in Arkansas carved an 80-mile path of destruction through an area around the Little Rock suburb of Vilonia, killing at least 16 people, possibly more, the Associated Press reports. Emergency officials began to pick through the rubble to look for survivors as the sun rose […] .
The Los Angeles Police Department Predicts and Fights Crime With Big Data
When the movie Minority Report was released in 2002, the predicting and consequently preventing of crime was still science fiction. It was far away and criminals-to-be had not to fear about predictive analytics being used by the police. Fast-forward to 2014 and things have changed. Although we are still […] .
Police Embrace Social Media
Police departments are increasingly embracing the idea of using social media sites, such as Facebook, for everything from soliciting crime tips to sharing safety-related information and improving community relations. The sites can give law enforcement an additional way to disseminate information quickly and to interact with the public. Through […] .
Homeland Security struggles to tempt, retain cyber talent
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 […] .
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 […]
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 […]
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Do You and Google Need a Relationship Counselor?
Yeah, probably, legal scholars say. Meet the “People’s Terms of Service.” Reuters If you’re not paying for a product, the saying goes, then you’re the product being sold. Another way of saying this is that you and Google — and you and Twitter, and you and Facebook — do […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 Best Practices [Free eBook Download]
Social Media Best Practices [Free eBook Download] Social media use is maturing; once a playground on the peripherals of the internet, now this space has become an important hub for business. With more and more brands finding a place on social networks, many social businesses face challenges getting into the conversation online, putting […]
In hurricane, Twitter proves a lifeline despite pranksters
By Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO | Wed Oct 31, 2012 12:53am EDT (Reuters) – As Hurricane Sandy pounded the U.S. Atlantic coast on Monday night, knocking out electricity and Internet connections, millions of residents turned to Twitter as a part-newswire, part-911 hotline that hummed through the night even as […]
12 Tips to Handle Social Media Overload
This is a guest post by Chris “Seth” Jackson. Chris operates a website called How To Run a Band , as well as being a musician in a band. I thought it would be exciting to see what a musician who is into marketing and promoting their own band […]