How tweets about your sick cat threaten our security health

[Prorootect]

How tweets about your sick cat threaten our security health topic for you ..

How tweets about your sick cat threaten our security health : http://www.zdnet.com/how-tweets-about-your-sick-cat-threaten-our-security-health-7000007392/

'Summary: You may think you know the risks of giving away too many personal details in social media. The trouble is others around you may not.'

'Healthy degree of paranoia
This kind of training needs to shine a spotlight on social engineering and social media for as many staff as possible. Instilling a healthy degree of paranoia is a good thing, as is teaching people to separate their work life from their online one. Serious enterprises with the most to lose could even ban social media at the firewall — it may be Draconian but it removes a point of risk.
It is ironic that something as seemingly meaningless as Joe Blogg's sick rabbit or Dublin stag-weekend photos are undermining countless hours of security policy and technological innovation, but it is unfortunately a fact.
It is mostly unfair to say social media makes people stupid, but it does provide a window for some rather devious and clever people. And, while technology can help prevent some of the dangers, a human solution is key to solving a very human problem.'

- by Adam Kujawa - a malware researcher at security software company Malwarebytes.

 

[Gnosis]

That is not the most cutting edge article I have ever read, BUT there is a ton of common sense in there. Social media is getting truly ridiculous. To each their own, but I am not posting my life out there for everyone to see. The closest I come to doing that is with all you guys, and gals. If I was going to do that I would do it in a fairly private MT environment.

I have met several girls that want to social network with me before they hook up. These are the same types that THINK that they know someone because they correspond online. Then they figure out, once they meet in person after months or years of correspondence, 4 hours away from home, that he is a serial rapist.
The alternative? They should have tried me out instead; zealous alpha dog at my worst, but not near as dimented and crazed as some of the men online in social media.
Money is the matter. Follow the money, whether relative to corporate marketing tactics, or social media females that weigh under 130 pounds.