While the basic risks of social media are well known to most enterprise security managers, there are many dark corners of social media that can be just as dangerous or even more so. Here are three ways that social media can sneak malware and exploits across your corporate firewalls, and ways that you can...
Does Twitter need Google or does Google need Twitter? It’s a question complicated by recent events, such as the two companies not coming to an agreement to extend their previous partnership through which Google showed Tweets in search results. That deal wasn’t renewed,and then Google decided to promote its own Google+ results in search,...
For better or for worse, art often imitates life and vice versa. Films like Jerry McGuire, Bad Company and Swimming With Sharks have become iconic depictions of what it’s like to navigate the corporate world while TV shows like Entourage give us a glimpse into what it’s like to be a movie star. So...
So you want to take a photo of you and your buds on the slopes or at the bar or at AF or whatever and you know, just know you’re going drop that shnitz on the floor. So what do you need? A freakin’ Kevlar cord, Mr. Brojangles. That’s what you need. So this...
At the D:Dive Into Media conference, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo told Peter Kafka that Google has all the data it needs to present Twitter data in its search results right alongside Google+ results. That has been the latest public response from Twitter after Google recently began pushing its own social network in search results...
If you’re a startup and you’ve been considering submitting yourself to the Startup Blast Off at Superconf 2012 in Miami, you’re just about out of time. The hard deadline is January 31st. That’s TOMORROW, folks. So yes, you have ONE day left to apply for the Startup Blast Off. So here, let’s help to...
Reports that the FBI would move in to seize the entire collection of Megaupload user data by Thursday have been nullified after the file-sharing site’s third party hosts, Carpathia Hosting and Cogent Communications, agreed a deal that will see the files saved for at least two weeks. Megaupload lawyer Ira Rothken confirmed the update, which...
Back in the late 1970s in Chicago, Bell System built the first mobile phone system that could support hundreds of concurrent connections. That was a big deal compared to, for instance, New York where only a dozen or so people could use the cell network at a time. When this video was made in...
What Pinterest is Doing That Facebook Isn’t Facebook drives traffic. Pinterest drives traffic. The big difference is that Pinterest is driving target-market traffic and impacting purchases. How is Pinterest perfecting what Facebook has been trying to do for some time? Alicia Eler says Facebook confuses the social graph with the interest graph. To learn...
Think of a hacker, and chances are, you’re thinking of an Eastern European. It’s sad but true. However, it terms of cyber-security, its a little more complicated than that. “There is a cyber-security paradox: the less sophisticated and widespread a country’s connection to the internet, the lesser the cyber-threat,” says the McAfee and Security Defence Agenda’s...