Articles Tagged with ''social media security''

LINKS

‘LINKS’ identifies ways to strengthen disaster resilience through the uses of social media and crowdsourcing technologies

November 30, 2020
LINKS ‘Strengthening links between technologies and society for European disaster resilience’ is a project financed by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program. The aim of the project is to conduct a comprehensive study on the uses and impacts of social media and crowdsourcing (SMCS) for disaster management purposes, and to better understand the ways in which the different stakeholders can collaborate in these processes.
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5 mins with Otavio Freire

5 minutes with Otavio Freire – How 'soft attacks' are exploiting human connection

Maria Henriquez
October 21, 2020

Attacks within digital communications channels (like Slack, TEAMS, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn)  have grown more targeted, more social engineering-focused, and the payloads have become "softer,” and the risks are not in files and links/IP's alone anymore. Instead, recent attacks are laser-targeted and evade traditional detection by focusing on human connections. To find out more about these “soft attacks,” we talk to Otavio Freire, CTO, President & Co-Founder SafeGuard Cyber.


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How CISOs Can Effectively Measure and Report Security Operations Maturity

It's not the number of moving pieces in your security program that matter; it's how those pieces are making your organization more resilient that truly counts. How do you achieve that goal?
James Carder
James Carder
August 10, 2020

When reporting to the board of directors, the majority of CISOs measure the effectiveness of their program against a proven model. But what exactly should a CISO be measuring and reporting? Here are some top recommendations.


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Phone spear phishing allowed hackers to gain Twitter employee credentials

August 3, 2020
Twitter has released additional information on their investigation into the compromise that occurred on July 15, 2020.  The attack, says the company, started with a spear phishing attack on a select group of employees that "relied on a significant and concerted attempt to mislead certain employees and exploit human vulnerabilities to gain access to [Twitter's] internal systems." 
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