social media

Leveraging social media in advanced threat intelligence

August 30, 2017

In this podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2017, Christian Lees, CISO at InfoArmor, discusses how leveraging social media helps to understand the motives and threat landscape …

Fake news services and tools proliferate on online markets

June 15, 2017

Fake news is not a new concept, but the Internet – and social media and networks in particular – have made it infinitely easier for it to spread and reach its …

US visa applicants will have to provide social media handles

June 2, 2017

US consular officials have been provided with a new questionnaire that they can give selected visa applicants to complete. Among other things, Form DS-5535 requires applicants …

Internet freedom around the world keeps decreasing

November 23, 2016

For the sixth year in a row, Internet freedom is declining. According to the latest Freedom on the Net report, 67 percent of all Internet users now live in countries where …

Facebook, Google ban fake news sources from their ad networks

November 15, 2016

Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s dismissive attitude regarding the claim that Facebook had an inappropriate impact on the US elections, the company has moved to bar sources of …

Twitter, Facebook revoke access to social media surveillance software used by cops

October 13, 2016

Geofeedia, a US-based company that offers its social media aggregation platform “to a broad range of private and public sector clients”, also numbers among its …

ZeroFOX sets up research team to expose social media threats

August 4, 2016

ZeroFOX announced the formalization of the industry’s first security research team dedicated to exposing social media threats, driving innovative defensive technology and …