Social Media Security

  • social Social Media SecurityA common delivery method for malware is shortened url’s.  Twitter recently announced a built-in URL shortener to make links uniform and recognizable.  Starting this summer, shortened links will conform to a “t.co” format.  That and other accompanying changes are already garnering praise. (Preview: shortened URLs will no longer count towards the 140 character limit.)

    Facebook has received unwelcome attention lately for some of its privacy policies and security issues.  Unless you’ve made manual changes, updates to the site have made more of your information public.  Backlash resulted in further changes fixing that, but you should still take a look at your privacy controls to be sure you’re not sharing more than you think.

    There is even a cottage industry popping up to help users keep their information secure.  All this has some people giving up their citizenship in Facebook nation.  But, with 400 million users, chances are that walking away may mean leaving behind a major network. A less drastic option is “quitting without actually quitting.”


    July 7th, 2010 | 3 CLiCk Media | No Comments | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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