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CIOs Have To Treat Social Media With Care

The Accidental Successful CIO

Hackers can learn a lot from a CIO’s social media Image Credit: Blogtrepreneur Every person with the CIO job knows what social media is. In fact, we all probably have Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media accounts. However, it turns out that there is a downside to social media that we may not be aware of.

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CIOs And The Problem Of Social Engineering

The Accidental Successful CIO

Social engineering is how the bad guys get employees to say too much Image Credit: Alexandre Formagio. You are now a hacker that is trying to break into your company’s network because you understand the importance of information technology, want to get money from your company, or do something else that you really should not be doing.

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Social Engineering 2.0: The Rise of Deepfake Phishing

SecureWorld News

And one of the most successful and increasingly prevalent ways of attack has come from social engineering, which is when criminals manipulate humans directly to gain access to confidential information. Social engineering is more sophisticated than ever, and its most advanced iteration is the topic of today's discussion: deepfakes.

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Seattle schools leader calls suit vs. social media titans a ‘first step’ for students across the country

GeekWire

Seattle Public Schools sees its case against TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Snap, Instagram, and their parent companies as a potential model to address the impact of social media on student mental health nationwide. In the case against social media, however, SPS is starting out on its own. SPS Photo).

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Stadia’s loss is Clubhouse’s gain: the social audio company has poached a longtime Google engineer

The Verge

He leaves Google after nearly 15 years at the company, where he was most recently the engineering lead for Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service and led the team that made the Stadia iOS web app. Uberti commended Clubhouse as a “great example” of a novel RTC use-case.). Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Social media companies are already losing the vaccine misinformation fight

Vox

Social media companies like Facebook and YouTube have ramped up their policies against coronavirus misinformation and banned false claims about Covid-19 vaccines. There are already plenty of examples of online content that sow doubt in Covid-19 vaccines. Content that spreads doubt about vaccines is easy to find online.

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Social media used to be free. Not anymore.

Vox

Friso Gentsch/picture alliance via Getty Images You used to pay for social media with your eyeballs. If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product” has long been a common refrain about the business of social media. But now, this free model of social media — subsidized by advertising — is under pressure.

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