Social Media and Social Good

250,000 Twitter Accounts Hacked In a recent blog post by Bob Lord (@boblord), the Director of Information Security for Twitter, said that in the latest online attack, hackers may have gained access to information on a quarter of a million of its more than 200 million active users.   This week, we detected unusual access patterns that led to us identifying unauthorized access attempts to Twitter user data. We discovered one live attack…

Nearly Half A Million Yahoo Email Addresses and Passwords Hacked Yahoo! now faces security concern just like what happened to LinkedIn as hacker group D33D Company is making headlines on Thursday morning after announcing that it attacked over 453,000 log-in credentials, including Yahoo email addresses and passwords. D33D Company, which was previously an unknown group, is reportedly associated with a Ukraine-registered website. The group has posted online the details of hundreds of…

1 in 3 Consumers Will Share Data if They Trust the Brand or For Discounts According to statistics from a DMA survey of 1,020 adults, 1 in 3 consumers now regard their personal information as a tradable commodity. These consumers are prepared to share their details for marketing purposes, as long as they trust the brand in question, while others would ‘sell’ their data for a discount. The following infographic from DMA…

How Facebook Processes Security-Related Reports When I gave 3 reasons why Facebook is still safe and secured, one of those reasons is that they truly respond to security-related questions or those that involve life-threatening reports. In a new blog post, Facebook staff have revealed which specific departments are involved in the flagging process and what happens when you’re done clicking and typing. In an email to VentureBeat, a Facebook rep explained…

Facebook Security Facebook may have over 900 million active users, gone Public, with over 30 billion pieces of content being shared monthly, Facebook comments being indexed by Google and with various type of people doing somewhat annoying things on the platform, it is safe to assume that the place is still safe and secured. I have gone through a lot of issues with a lot of social networking platforms I’ve gotten my LinkedIn…