Posts Tagged ‘Social Media Risks’

employee 51 confirms Facebook has DARK Profiles

Katherine Losse was Facebook’s employee #51 and personal ghost writer for Zuckerberg.  Here’s what she revealed about DARK PROFILES.   NB: LinkedIn does this as well.  So do most other […]

Cloud users CANNOT rely on vendor-provided 3rd party certifications

While the US government dithers due to Congressional gridlock and the quadrennial electioneering showmanship, there’s some sanity coming from the UK.   Recently, Amazon (and previously, Microsoft) submitted 3rd party […]

Twitter goes down due to DUAL datacenter failures

Most cloud vendors promise great uptime and brag about having redundant offsite facilities. How many are planning for DUAL (or MULTIPLE) datacenter failures? Twitter, SalesForce, Amazon have each had massive […]

Microsoft Azure goes down across Western Europe

Microsoft is bringing their legendary reliability (sarcasm!) to cloud computing.   From TheRegister.com: Microsoft Azure is having an up-and-down kind of day as the cloud platform struggles to get any […]

NSA Whistleblower – You're automatically suspicious until proven otherwise

TV, Movies, History, Social Studies, Civics and law classes have trained us to believe that in the US, everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Post 9/11, that’s no longer true. […]

That’s Not My Phone, It’s My Tracker – NYTimes.com

In case you missed my Social Media & Cloud Computing Threats to Privacy, Security & Liberty or A Global Perspective on Mobile Security, Privacy and Safety presentations, here’s a fantastic […]

What's the REAL impact of the LinkedIn, eHarmony, Yahoo and other password breaches

For years, I’ve been talking about drive-by-lootings, where security screwups on part of CompanyA cause damage to innocent Company B.   In this case, Microsoft (legally!) used the leaked password […]

Yes, you can be fired for Facebook posts

Repeat after me: “Everything I (or my friend) (or my friends’ friends) say about me online can be used against me FOREVER”.   Case in point – an ambulance operator […]

We know what you're doing…another good reason to get off Facebook

Would you be OK if the NSA recorded your every phonecall, and everytime you said “I hate my boss” or “I’m taking a new drug”, that information was made public?” […]

Brighttalk Mobile Security Webinar – A Global Perspective on Mobile Security, Privacy and Safety – July 11, 2012

http://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/288/50821 July 11, 2012 4:00 PM EST Traditionally, when we think of mobile computing, we think about which of our employees we trust, and what devices we allow onto our […]