socialmedia

Presenting at SANS 2013 in Orlando Next Week

I’ll be at SANS 2013 in Orlando this weekend assisting Kevin Johnson with his SEC542: Web App Penetration Testing & Ethical Hacking class and giving two SANS@Night presentations: Social Zombies: Rise of the Mobile Dead w/Kevin Johnson – Monday, March 11th, 7:15pm – 8:15pm “Hall of Shame” Apps in the Apple App Store and Google Play – Wednesday, …

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Hacking Your Location With Facebook Places

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…:-)

Privacy and Security of Open Graph, Social Plugins and Instant Personalization on Facebook

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 …

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Beware of Evil Facebook Groups

Some of my Facebook friends are probably wondering why I would fall into the trap of the magical “dislike button” hype that seems to be sweeping across Facebook right now.  In a little social experiment and hopefully an awareness exercise for some of my non-security friends I created a Facebook group based off of similar …

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