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, …
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…:-)
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 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 …
I see some crazy, mind blowing things posted by people on social networks but this recent tweet I saw might take the cake. It’s one thing to post something on Facebook where you have the ability to lock down who might see your status updates but Twitter has very little control over this. In fact, …
Everyone has probably already heard that Facebook rolled out new privacy settings today. If you haven’t seen them or gotten the following pop-up box on login…you will soon: There are a great deal of articles already out about how this is such a great improvement and how these new settings give you more control over …
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