In the technology world there’s a saying: no one knows you’re a dog on the Internet. We use this saying in security to make the point that the Internet has a high degree of … [Read more...]
12 Suggested Security and Privacy Guidelines for Social Media
Recently a colleague of mine who’s a social media marketer posted a question on Facebook. She said she was sitting down to update her company’s social media guidelines and … [Read more...]
The Social Media Manager’s Guide to Summer Safety: 10 Ways to be Safer
It’s July which means the start of summer here in the Pacific Northwest. When the switch is flipped and summer starts here, people pack up and head off to enjoy … [Read more...]
Enable Twitter Two-Factor Authentication Today
Regular readers of this column will be familiar with my statements on the importance of using two-factor authentication for social media properties like Facebook. You also are … [Read more...]
Protecting Your Good Name: What to Do When Your Email or Website Flagged as “Dangerous”
Was your website flagged for malware? As a social media marketer, you know the importance of your company’s reputation. You spend a lot of time working to build up and … [Read more...]
Social Media and Security: Have it Your Way – What the Burger King Twitter Hack Tells Us
We interrupt this month’s planned part two of Social Media and Online Security: Whose Pictures Are They Anyway? to focus on a more immediate, newsworthy event: last week’s … [Read more...]
Social Media and Online Security: Whose Pictures Are They Anyway?
Some of you may have followed the recent uproar over the Instagram Terms of Use (ToU) that went into effect on January 19, 2013. If you didn’t catch it, the short version … [Read more...]
How You Can Find Security in an Insecure Social World
Last month I examined whether social media has dispensed with privacy. Since influencers in the social spaces suggest that success in new media increasingly will be enhanced … [Read more...]
Brave New World: Understanding Security Risks Around Mobile Devices
For this month’s Social Media and Online security column, we’re going to get a bit more techy and talk about hardware. Specifically, this month, I want to focus on the topic … [Read more...]
Halloween Social Media Security Risks: What You Should be Most Afraid of
The leaves starting to turn outside my office window and the small pumpkin on my desk tell me that we’re getting into one of my favorite times of the year: the Halloween … [Read more...]
To Host or Not to Host: How Vulnerable Is My Blog to a Security Breach?
For this month’s column on Social Media and Online Security we’re taking a look at what is arguably the first and still most important form of social media: the blog. As a … [Read more...]
Understanding Security and Privacy in Google Plus
I don’t use Google+, why should I care? In my first column, I said that one challenge with social media from a security and privacy point of view is that “[i]t’s an axiom … [Read more...]
What to Do about Passwords: 5 Tips for Password Management in a Social Media World
In last month’s column, I talked about what to do if your social media channel is hijacked. In starting that column off, I mentioned the then-recent announcement that by … [Read more...]
To Pin Or Not To Pin: 5 Security Risks Businesses Should Understand Around Pinterest and What They Can Do About Them.
There’s a lot of interest in Pinterest now. Not only is it is a new social media channel, its approach is fundamentally different from other social media channels. It has the … [Read more...]