Facebook, Twitter need corporate security policies
Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter open threats to sensitive corporate data that businesses need to deal with aggressively, Interop attendees were told.
View ArticleHow to deal with 3 big corporate security concerns
BOSTON -- Virtualization, mobility and social networking were flagged as posing most security risk to businesses, partly because there is no accepted set of best practices yet to protect them, IT...
View ArticleAnonymous takes aim at Google+ in more ways than one
Google+ may be getting some attention it doesn't want -- from Anonymous, which says it will target the new social networking site that launched last month.
View ArticleLulzSec gets Google+ boot, but returns
Hacker group LulzSec ("the world's leaders in high-quality entertainment at your expense") has had its initial Google+ account nixed this week, though LulzSec has quickly and brashly re-emerged with a...
View ArticleFacebook users hit by nasty porn storm
Facebook users have been bombarded with explicit and violent images in the latest malware campaign aimed at the giant social networking site, a security researcher said.
View ArticleA new focus for IT security?
Phil Vasic, regional director, APAC, at software security firm Clearswift explains why the growing pace of change in Web 2.0 technology and its integration into existing IT infrastructures make the...
View ArticleErnst & Young's IT security survey shows struggle to control cloud computing,...
Many CIOS and chief information security officers are struggling to adapt security practices to a changing environment that includes cloud computing, social media and tablets , according to a survey of...
View ArticleIs anything private in Web 2.0?
The answer to this question is simple: no. With the developments in social media and two-way communication channels such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, it has made social privacy somewhat non-existent.
View ArticleFacebook messaging changes could let paid advertisements into users' inboxes
Facebook today announced a trial that could let paid advertisers directly message users' in-boxes, which have traditionally been held for messages from friends.
View ArticleOutlook 2013 ... Even more interesting than 2012!
Gibbs reviews his predictions from last year and surveys the more than 400 predictions that he's been sent by IT professionals
View ArticleSome Facebook users asked for $100 to message Zuckerberg
Want to send a message directly to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg? It might cost you $100, if you don't want it to wind up in his spam folder.
View ArticleLinkedIn is down, then up, then down again Wednesday morning
LinkedIn, the professional social media network, is suffering intermittent service disruptions Wednesday morning.
View Article25 must-have technologies for SMBs
Running a small business isn't easy. I know. I run one. As a freelance writer, I’ve learned that you need to run your writing career as if you were running a business.
View ArticleFacebook 'Trusted Contacts' lets you pester friends to recover account access
Facebook Thursday said it’s making available globally a feature called "Trusted Contacts" that lets users select three to five friends who can help users recover account access such as if they forget...
View ArticleTwitter: Attack emails drop from 110 million per day to a few thousand
There used to be a whopping 110 million attack messages per day spoofing the Twitter domain name as cyber-criminals blasted out fake Twitter e-mail at intended victims to try and fool them into opening...
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