This is the final article in my series on Enterprise Open Source Intelligence Gathering. This information relates to the main topics from my presentation that I am giving this week at the 7th Annual Ohio Information Security Summit. For more background information, see part one. If you missed part two (blogs, message boards and metadata) […]
This post is part two of my three part series on Enterprise Open Source Intelligence Gathering. This information relates to the presentation that I am giving this week at the 7th Annual Ohio Information Security Summit. For more background information, see part 1. Part three will be about putting together a simple monitoring program/toolkit and
UPDATE: You can now download my slide deck from SlideShare. Next week I will be speaking at the 7th Annual Ohio Information Security Summit on “Enterprise Open Source Intelligence Gathering”. Here is the talk abstract: What does the Internet say about your company? Do you know what is being posted by your employees, customers, or
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The video from the talk Kevin Johnson and I did at DEFCON 17 called “Social Zombies: Your Friends Want To Eat Your Brains” is now up on Vimeo. If you missed us at DEFCON Kevin and I will be presenting an updated version at OWASP AppSec DC in November.
Social Zombies: Your Friends Want To Eat Your Brains Video from DEFCON Posted Read More »
Kevin and I want to thank everyone that came out to our talk at DEFCON 17 this past weekend. We had a great time giving the talk and thanks for the feedback! Even the two Facebook developers that came to our Q&A enjoyed it! Having said that, Kevin and I will never, ever get a
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Yes, you are reading the title of this post correctly! Massive Zombie attacks at DefCon this year…bring your shotgun (we are kidding of course, please do not bring firearms to DefCon…you will make the goons very unhappy)! Seriously though, Kevin Johnson and I will be presenting “Social Zombies: Your Friends Want to Eat Your Brains”
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July 1st was “Twittersec” day as coined by @hevnsnt over at I-Hacked.com to designate July 1st as change your Twitter password day. Why? Mostly because July is the “month of Twitter bugs” created by a security researcher in which he will announce a bug in a “3rd party Twitter application” everyday for the month of
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If you have been using social media or are curious of the security of this emerging technology you may be interesting reading my recently published article in issue 21 of (IN)SECURE Magazine. In my article I discuss why companies are starting to use social media, the benefits/risks and what information may be posted about your
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Do you have a BlackBerry for work and you have a corporate policy pushed down and managed by your corporate IT team? Depending on how locked down the policy is for your corporate BlackBerry deployment you may be syncing sensitive or confidential data to a public web site. So I recently installed the Facebook Blackberry
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I have been seeing a bunch of friends on social networks filling out these “25 Random Things About Me” surveys. I just saw another one going around called “44 Odd Things About You” as well. I remember this similar type of activity passed along in email several years ago but now it’s made its way
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