Entries from Realtime Community | Messaging and Web Security tagged with 'social networking'
Phishers are re-working old attacks and coming up with some variations on past attacks as they continue to try to scam social networking site users. This isn't new, but as Symantec points out, the attacks are on the rise....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on May 22, 2009 12:19 PM
Remember's Sun's tag line "the network is the computer" (that was before they put the dot in the Internet and were consumed by Oracle's merger-mania machine). IBM seems to be taking a similar approach by making "social networking is the...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on April 30, 2009 11:04 AM
The latest issue of the McAfee Security Journal (formerly Sage) is dedicated to social engineering and addresses a range of issues, including:...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on October 14, 2008 5:10 PM
The information we share with friends on social networking sites may be used in unintended ways, such as providing details for a spear phishing attack. In this podcast we look at the benefits as well as the risks in social...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on September 8, 2008 8:28 AM
The FBI and Dutch police have arrested a teenager who created a botnet using that grew through social engineering according to Network World....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on August 14, 2008 9:01 PM
A Black Hat presentation on social networking scams shows what can happen when you don't stake a claim in social networking sites....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on August 8, 2008 9:34 AM
I was a little hesitant to click through on a BusinesssWeek article entitled "Looming Online Security Threats in 2008". It isn't even Thanksgiving yet and already Christmas decorations are in the stores and doom and gloom predictions for 2008 are...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on November 12, 2007 12:46 PM
Rebecca Harold outlines common concerns about social networking in her post More Organizations Are Blocking Social Networking Sites To Address Information Security and Privacy Concerns. Most of the concerns center around security and confidentiality but Harold sees this is not...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on November 8, 2007 12:32 PM
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