Articles Tagged with ''social media ''

The report said that terrorist groups engaged in a range of criminal activity to raise needed funds, with kidnapping for ransom remaining the most frequent and profitable source of illicit financing. Private donations from the Gulf also remained a major source of funding for Sunni terrorist groups, particularly for those operating in Syria.

Facebook will delete posts from users seeking to buy or sell weapons illegally or without a background check.

 

Some of CNN's social media accounts and blogs have been hacked.

In 2014, McAfee Labs expects that Ransomware will proliferate on mobile devices, attacks using advanced evasion techniques will come of age, and social platforms will be used more aggressively to target the finances and personal information of consumers, and the intellectual property and trade secrets of business leaders.

While a hot topic in past years has been the use of the internet to help with employee selection through social media background checks, it appears that this trend is fading fast.

Oakland, Calif will spend millions of dollars to create a surveillance supercenter.

A Palestinian security researcher posted a message on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s page last week after he says the site’s security team didn’t take his warnings of a security flaw seriously, CNN reports.

A new Deloitte and Forbes Insights survey reveals that fewer than 25 percent of executives report that their organizations continuously monitor risk.

According to a Gartner, Inc. study, 60 percent of companies are expected to monitor their employees' digital activity by 2015.