Articles Tagged with ''social media security''

The Rise of Extremism

The rapid growth of extremist groups provides many challenges for enterprise security.

June 8, 2020

The rapid growth of extremist groups poses many challenges to enterprise security. How has social media and the Internet provided radical groups the means to spread their ideologies and what are the challenges with identifying and countering these groups?

FBI Warns Popular Social Media Trends can Lead to Fraud

April 21, 2020

The FBI Charlotte, N.C. office is warning social media users to pay close attention to the information they share online. A number of trending social media topics seem like fun games, but can reveal answers to very common password retrieval security questions, says the FBI, as fraudsters can leverage this personal information to reset account passwords and gain access to once-protected data and accounts.

U.S. Department of Justice Asks Facebook Not to Implement End-to-End Encryption

October 7, 2019

The Department of Justice published an open letter to Facebook from international law enforcement partners from the United States, United Kingdom and Australia in response to the company’s publicly announced plans to implement end-to-end-encryption across its messaging services.

Facebook Suspends Thousands of Accounts Due to Data Concerns

September 27, 2019

Facebook has suspended "tens of thousands" of apps connected to the platform after they were suspected of collecting large amounts of data, according to a news report.

Outsourcing Data: Don't Take a Fairytale Approach

72 Percent of Americans Are Concerned About Their Privacy, Symantec Report Says

March 29, 2019

According to the 2018 Norton LifeLock Cyber Safety Insights Report, nearly three out of four Americans (72 percent) are more alarmed than ever about their privacy.

Critical Communications

In the event of a disaster, social media can spread essential messages near and far, but how do official communications outlets cut through the noise?

Adam Stone

January 9, 2019

When the Cold Springs Fire tore through 528 acres of Boulder County, Colo., Director of Emergency Management Mike Chard took to social media.

During Disasters, Active Twitter Users Likely to Spread Falsehoods

May 29, 2018

According to research that examined false tweets from Hurricane Sandy and the Boston Marathon bombing, 86 to 91 percent of active Twitter users spread misinformation, and that nearly as many did nothing to correct it.

6 Links Between Social Media and Violence You Haven’t Thought About

Daniil Davydoff

May 22, 2018

In March, the European Commission demanded that tech firms remove terrorist posts within one hour of their appearance. Similar calls have come from corporations and commentators, alike. These forms of pressure are important but focused only on the problem of social media serving as a tool for spreading violent ideas and propaganda. Disturbingly, social media use itself may be predisposing individuals to commit terrorism, shootings and other forms of violence by impacting user behavior and well-being.

Brand Security: Maneuvering in the Wild, Wild West (AKA Social Media)

Dillon Twombly

September 12, 2017

Physical employee safety and the protection of business assets are paramount responsibilities for Chief Security Officers (CSOs) and their teams.

ACLU Criticism Causes Controversy with Social Media Monitoring Tools

February 1, 2017

Alleging privacy violations and potentially invasive tracking of activists’ actions, statements and protest plans, the American Civil Liberties Union has taken aim at social media monitoring software that has been used to monitor and analyze social media data from platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Retail security professionals are facing an increasingly complex array of security challenges — everything from organized retail crime to evolving cyber-physical threats and public safety concerns.