Posts Tagged ‘security’
This week’s most clicked
How customer engagement really works; how religion is spreading on social media; and how Facebook is threatening Yahoo!’s business. It’s all in this week’s top five most-clicked links in SmartBrief on Social Media: 3 myths that could derail your social media efforts Security loophole means Facebook fans can be a precarious commodity Can anyone catch [...]
How much damage could your social media presence do in the wrong hands?
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Social Media — tracks feedback from leading marketers about social media practices and issues. Last week’s poll question: Does your company have guidelines in place to prevent having its social media presence hacked? No, and we’re not considering it: 42.74% Yes: 30.77% My company doesn’t [...]
Protect your social media channels from a hack attack
This post is by Grace Cowlard, social media commentator for Neoco, an agency for social customer-relationship management. What do the CIA, Lady Gaga, Fox News and Hugh Grant have in common? They were all recently hacked, and we’re pretty sure they want to avoid a repeat. Whether it’s an unscrupulous newspaper publisher or an activist [...]
Are you prepared for the pitfalls of Gov 2.0?
The Gov 2.0 space is full of evangelists trumpeting the ability of social-media technology to make government more responsive, efficient and collaborative. But you can’t guard against the potential dangers that can come from combining social media and the business of government unless you’re willing to acknowledge the risks involved. “Things like access and transparency [...]
Has Blippy’s leak response been adequate?
You’ve let your users down. Now what? That’s the question facing Blippy CEO Ashvin Kumar in the lead stories from today’s SmartBrief on Social Media. Blippy, a service that allows users to share news of their credit card purchases with friends, made headlines last week after it accidentally divulged four users credit card numbers via [...]
Are you concerned about the security risks of location-based services?
We like it when our favorite networks offer more features, but we fear that we’re feeding too much personal information into the machine to make those features possible. We yearn for greater connection, yet we worry about our privacy. It’s the eternal struggle of the social-media scene, and nowhere is it more obvious than with [...]
6 security tips from BreakingPoint Systems
Google doesn’t care about your security. Facebook doesn’t care about your security. You are the only one who can keep your computer and your network secure, Kyle Flaherty, director of communications at BreakingPoint Systems, argued during a panel at Social Media for Defense and Government. “Why would Facebook [care]?” he asked. “They don’t lose money [...]
The dark side of social media
Social media might rely on technology, but it behaves like a force of nature. We use it to talk with friends, collaborate, share ideas and build businesses, but no one is really in charge. Trying to guide social media as a whole would be like trying to steer a river — you would literally have [...]
