Kevin Johnson and I will be speaking at Notacon this Saturday at 1pm! We are giving our third and final Social Zombies talk on hacking Geolocation and social networks: Social Zombies Gone Wild: Totally Exposed and Uncensored. Lot’s of fun is planned!
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My employer (SecureState) has released two white papers as part of our Social Media Security Awareness Month. You can also download some cool wallpaper for this month created by Rob our graphic designer (see the picture on the right). 🙂 First is some research several of my colleagues and I worked on. The paper is titled:
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I just published a post over on the SecureState blog about how to hack your location using Facebook Places. The post brings up some interesting questions about how social networks are going to have a problem with fake location check-in’s. In the meantime, it’s a way to have fun with your friends…:-)
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I’ve had several fake emails that initially look like they come from Twitter in my email recently. I didn’t think anything of it until several of my friends forwarded me the same type of emails. This suggests two things. One, that these emails are starting to hit a larger audience. Or two, they are targeting
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Last week I was asked by some of my social media acquaintances to be a panelist on a end of the day keynote at the Online Marketing Summit (OMS) held in Cleveland, OH. The first thing you are probably wondering is “What the hell is a security guy doing at a marketing conference”? Let me
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I have updated the Facebook Privacy & Security Guide to version 2.2 over on SocialMediaSecurity.com. If you’re not familiar with the guide it is an easy to use guide which helps you set the recommended privacy and security settings on your Facebook account. It’s free, printable and meant to be shared. This update includes details
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Ever since I started the Facebook Privacy & Security Guide back in October 2008 I knew that Facebook’s privacy settings were confusing for the average user. Many of my concerns back then centered around friends and family that had no idea there were even privacy settings to configure on Facebook. It has also never been
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As most major news organizations and blogs have covered the changes that Facebook has made from a high level, I wanted to focus this post specifically on Facebook’s “Open Graph”, “Social Plugins” and “Instant Personalization”. In my opinion, these are three changes that will significantly impact the way you and your friends use Facebook. As
Some of you have asked for the slides and video from the talk I did at Shmoocon with Kevin Johnson and Robin Wood titled “Social Zombies II: Your Friends Need More Brains”. I had posted these on the Twitter but I wanted to get these links up in one static location, the blog! You can
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I always thought the Facebook Application for BlackBerry was a buggy, slow piece of junk. Now I have noticed that this application is being abused by spammers to propagate Viagra and Percocet SPAM. The screen shot to the right is an actual Facebook notification I received on my BlackBerry. There seems to be an interesting
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