Late last week I was a guest on the Streetwise Security Zone Podcast talking about my Facebook Privacy & Security guide, social media security as well as some other interesting security topics. I highly recommend you check out some of the great things that Scott Wright has put together. He has built a security community […]
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There was a good post over at ThreatChaos the other day about a new Firefox extension which will automatically show you the real URL’s of shortened URL’s. What is URL shortening? For example…this long URL: http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=washington+dc&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.764224,56.25&ie=UTF8&ll=38.905996,-77.023773&spn=0.25915,0.439453&z=11&g=washington+dc&iwloc=addr becomes… http://tinyurl.com/9lum95 By using a service like Tinyurl or one of the many other sites available you can easily
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I just posted an article for Blogsecurify about a new Facebook phish that I stumbled upon. Thanks again to Greg and Tyler for helping out with some of the detailed analysis! You guys rock!
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Today at the Ohio Information Security Summit I released my Facebook Security & Privacy Guide. This guide gives you suggested “baseline” security settings that you can use when configuring your Facebook account. Obviously, you can adjust these settings based on your own level of risk but it should give you a good starting point. How
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Over the weekend I posted my first article on Social Network/Media security over at Blogsecurify. You can check out the post here. My next article will talk about the security of third-party applications and widgets for social media applications.
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