Enterprise 2.0 strategies are becoming more popular among companies today, but there are serious logistical and legal challenges along with the expected benefits of using social collaboration tools.
This is especially true for companies like Vanguard, a mutual fund with roughly 12,500 employees and $1.3 trillion in assets under management, said Abha Kumar, principal in the information technology division, during a presentation at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston this week.
As businesses increasingly try to figure out how to use social networking tools in the enterprise, an IT governance group has released a ranking of the top five risks social media poses to companies.
One by one, the emails came from Facebook: So-and-so has posted on your wall.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday publicly addressed the growing criticisms against his company for its failure to safeguard user privacy. In a column in the Washington Post, Zuckerberg acknowledged Facebook’s shortcomings and promised to do better.
Facebook is fixing a Web programming bug that could have allowed hackers to alter profile pages or make restricted information public.
The flaw was discovered last week and reported to Facebook by M.J. Keith, a senior security analyst with security firm Alert Logic.
Popular social networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, are causing a stir in the financial services community as well as other highly regulated industries as companies seek ways to control how the sites are used to communicate with potential clients and colleagues.
Social networking giant Facebook has been taking it hard on the chin lately as critics contend that recent upgrades to the site and a bug that lets users view their friends’ chat sessions raise a bevy of privacy issues.
When a piece of software is automatically installed on your computer without your knowledge, it’s called malware. But what do you call it when Facebook apps are added to your profile without your knowledge? We discovered that this is actually happening, and stopping it isn’t as easy as checking a box in your privacy settings.
More than half of all users of social networks in the U.S. are posting information that could put them at risk from cyber criminals, according to a Consumer Reports study.
A hacker named Kirllos has a rare deal for anyone who wants to spam, steal, or scam on Facebook: an unprecedented number of user accounts offered at rock-bottom prices.
Researchers at VeriSign’s iDefense group recently spotted Kirllos selling Facebook user names and passwords in an underground hacker forum, but what really caught their attention was the volume of credentials he had for sale: 1.5 million accounts.
Facebook is employing aggressive legal means in combination with technical measures in order to stop hackers from abusing its social-networking site, according to its chief security officer, Max Kelly.
The company is constantly under fire from hackers trying to spam its 400 million registered users, harvest their data, or run other scams.
A malicious advertisement has been found within an application for Facebook that redirected users to fake antivirus software, according to a security researcher.
The banner advertisement for greeting cards was intermittently displayed with an application called Farm Town, which has more than 9 million monthly users according to information published on Facebook.
The launch of Buzz left Google with a black eye over several privacy mishaps. The main source of angst was the exposure of user Gmail contacts, and Google’s rushed tweaks just weren’t good enough. Now Google wants a total redo — and perhaps forgiveness — with the implementation of even further fixes.
Posted by Justin Ryan | Posted in social networking | Posted on 26-03-2010
Most of us have experienced the need to disinfect a virus-laden system — though a near-total immunity is one of the many benefits of being a Linux user. If public health officials in northern England are to be believed, though, the term “computer virus” may be in for a new meaning. more>>
Facebook‘s 400 million users have been targeted by a spam run that could infect their computers with malicious software designed to steal passwords and other data, according to security researchers at McAfee.
Twitter has launched a new link-screening service aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service.
Part of the new service is a new Twitter tool to shorten URLs, so users will see some links in email notifications and direct messages from other users written as twt.tl, Twitter said in a blog post.
If the public wants online privacy it had better fight now for laws to protect it because businesses won’t and individuals don’t have the clout, security expert Bruce Schneier told RSA Conference.
Facebook’s New Privacy Settings: 5 Things You Should Know
SAN FRANCISCO — Businesses are still trying to figure out what to make of social networking. The knee-jerk impulse at some companies is to ban its use because it’s insecure and seen as unproductive, while at others it’s viewed as, in fact, the way a lot of people now get work done.
Google has fixed a Web flaw that gave hackers a way to take control of Google Buzz accounts. The flaw was patched late Tuesday, just hours after being disclosed on a Web-hacking blog run by Robert Hansen, CEO of SecTheory.
