Tech Republic Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Social media is overflowing with quizzes, surveys and opportunities to tell the world about yourself. Learn why you should skip these to protect yourself and your identity.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2024

Technology has a critical role to play in any organization’s social sustainability strategy. And according to a survey from NTT, a majority of senior executives recognize this and are actively working to harness digital technology and innovation to support their social sustainability initiatives. That number is set to grow.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Read why Ellen Tannam says that social media exposure can increase the cost of a data breach by many times on Silicon Republic : 2018 has been a year dominated by data breaches. Companies from Facebook to Google and Marriott all fell victim to data breaches in the past 12 months. The incidents exposed personal […].

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Vox

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

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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Vox

JULY 5, 2023

Landry is suing the Biden administration over alleged censorship on social media platforms. | Conservatives have complained for years that they’ve been unfairly banned from social media platforms. Now a federal judge is banning parts of the government from communicating with social media platforms.

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Tech Republic Security

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Social media has become an integral part of modern communications, providing valuable information to businesses and individuals. Unfortunately, some of that information is just plain wrong or misleading.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 22, 2022

Social media is allowing companies to show their creativity and personality to customers and the world like never before. Today, businesses have the ability to reach millions of people through social media—regularly and as creatively as they dare. How does AI boost social media? A staggering 4.62

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Vox

MARCH 25, 2023

Utah’s kids will have a very different social media experience next year. Georgijevic/Getty Images Utah’s strict new social media laws have some scary implications for the whole country. They may also, possibly, have an effect on social media users beyond Utah’s borders. It might not be a better one.

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Computer Weekly

JUNE 23, 2016

Companies should educate employees not to connect to strangers on social media to reduce the risk of phishing attacks, Intel Security has warned

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Truth Social’s listing in the App Store. Truth Social, a social media network developed by former president Donald Trump’s new media company, is now live on the iOS App Store in the US. The service appears to be closely modeled on Twitter, which was previously Trump’s preferred social media platform.

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It’s nothing new that social media is a hotbed of hot takes. But that doesn’t mean that it should all be dismissed as nonsense, especially when it comes to information security. Even the most innocuous posts somehow manage to offend or anger someone out there on the internet.

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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 1, 2020

With the 2020 presidential election looming, here are questions to consider before posting on social media.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 15, 2020

This should be common sense at this point, but the fact that they continue to trend on social media suggests plenty of people need the reminder: Stop participating in those weird memes that ask you to provide seemingly innocuous personal information (your full name + the street your grew up on + your first car, etc.)… Read more.

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Dataconomy

JUNE 5, 2023

The latest “social media chroming challenge” has infiltrated popular platforms like TikTok, captivating a vast number of individuals who are actively engaging in online discussions surrounding this phenomenon. What is social media chroming challenge?

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Vox

MARCH 25, 2021

Peter Welch asked if they’d be open to a new federal agency focused on social media platforms. At a House Energy and Commerce committee hearing on social media, extremism, and misinformation on Thursday, Rep. & - social media has perpetuated misinformation loops. During a hearing with tech CEOs, Rep.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

But Democrats are increasingly worried about the influence of misinformation on social media aimed at Latino voters in the runup to the election. Several misinformation researchers told Recode that they’re seeing alarming amounts of misinformation about voter fraud and Democratic leaders being shared in Latino social media communities.

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

At the end of 2019, Forbes identified data privacy and security as the most pressing issue in the upcoming decade. While clicking through their often numerous social media accounts, consumers are providing these companies with more personal data. […].

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Vox

MAY 12, 2022

The conservative United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit handed down a brief, unexplained order Wednesday evening that will throw the entire social media industry into turmoil if the Texas law at issue in this case is allowed to remain in effect. The decision in NetChoice v.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Truth Social is expected to be available on February 21st. Former President Donald Trump’s social media app, Truth Social , is expected to make its debut on Presidents’ Day, according to a report from Reuters. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images. We’re currently set for release in the Apple App store for Monday Feb.

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Gizmodo

APRIL 21, 2021

Yahoo News reports that the USPS’s security arm, the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), monitored social media for potential threats of domestic violence. According to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo… Read more.

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The Verge

JANUARY 9, 2021

Rioters breached security at the Capitol on Wednesday January 6th | Photo by Olivier Douliery / AFP via Getty Images. Warner told Politico that following Wednesday’s attack, Congress would “come back with a vengeance” against social media platforms that were unable to rein in violent content and threats on their platforms.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

A cybersecurity firm found that bots were promoting GameStop stock on social media before and after the stock’s frenzied rise last month, Reuters reported. Massachusetts-based PiiQ Media says social media bots promoted Dogecoin, GameStop, and other “meme” stocks in posts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 1, 2020

As it turns out, social media is about a lot more than status updates and memes. And that could be a security risk in itself. How many software vulnerabilities are posted on social media first? In this case, PNNL looked at what it calls social cybersecurity. Social cybersecurity is a huge threat.

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Forrester IT

APRIL 11, 2019

Besides the security concerns of social media sites potentially mining […]. The premise is simple: Post a photo of yourself in 2009 and a photo of yourself in 2019 to highlight certain changes that may have taken place in that time.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Social engineering attacks have long been a threat to businesses worldwide, statistically comprising roughly 98% of cyberattacks worldwide. Given the much more psychologically focused and methodical ways that social engineering attacks can be conducted, it makes spotting them hard to do.

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Venture Beast

OCTOBER 9, 2020

details tools that allowed QAnon to move from the fringes to the mainstream -- crowdsourcing, social media, and gamification. Read More.

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The Verge

JUNE 26, 2020

The Trump administration has sent letters to social media companies requesting they take action on posts calling for people to take down statues, commit acts of violence, and break curfews, as first reported by The Washington Post. Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images.

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Venture Beast

AUGUST 28, 2020

The Incidents data set was made to encourage the development of AI for recognizing accidents and natural disasters from social media images. Read More.

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The Verge

MAY 24, 2021

Wicker’s memo claims that ITMS “surveilled social media activity on Twitter to monitor accounts that posted commentary critical of processes used to conduct the US Census.” This kind of misinformation campaign typically involves troll farms: groups of people paid by governments sowing wrong or misleading information on social media.

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Kitaboo

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The term “social learning” was first coined by Albert Bandura, a Canadian–American psychologist and professor of psychology at Stanford University. ” His social learning theory focuses on four elements, which could be applied in the context of learning within organizations and institutions. What are Social Learning Features?

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Gizmodo

JULY 21, 2020

The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence & Analysis has been authorized to conduct social media surveillance of protestors in order to protect statues and monuments, according to an unclassified three-page document obtained by Lawfare and the Washington Post.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into whether misinformation posted on social media was used to boost the stocks of GameStop and AMC, according to Bloomberg. Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge. The commission is also said to be reviewing trading data as part of its probe into potential market manipulation.

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 20, 2021

The Department of Homeland Security is being slammed with a new lawsuit after spending just over a year failing to respond to repeated attempts at investigating its long-term data hoovering practices. Read more.

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Forrester IT

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Over the weekend, security pros took to social media to understand and dissect the Log4j vulnerability. The fact of the […].

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The Verge

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The SEC is investigating a SPAC deal involving former President Trump’s nascent social media company. Two US regulatory agencies are investigating the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) that plans to take former President Trump’s nascent social media company public. Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 28, 2017

Compliance pros, try to recall your last interaction with your marketing peers about social media: How did it go? Social Compliance. Social Marketing. Social media. Was it productive? Who initiated the conversation? Do you see a pattern? Now to be fair, marketers' responses end up looking pretty similar.

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GeekWire

MARCH 10, 2021

Limit is a social media app for people between the ages of 18 and 25. He’s just trying to limit the age range for people who can use his new social media product, which is fittingly called Limit App. Instead of a secret Instagram account to keep mom from peeping on your social life, Limit locks mom out.

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