Posts tagged ‘social’
Twitter Spam: Saying sorry is not good enough…
This week, another wave of phishing attacks has hit users of popular social networking, and micorblogging weisite, Twitter. Cyber criminals have duped users, celebrities and organizations using Twitter into revealing their log in credentials. Said credentials were then used to spam and dupe more users of Twitter. While there is nothing new about this type of attack, what is particularly worrying is the extent of this particular attack and the media portrayal of the ‘scammers’ and ‘victims’. More…
Edinburgh Coffee Morning and Me
I did it guys! I finally made it up in time to hang out with all the social media people who head on down to Edinburgh Coffee Morning at Centotre. Well, I was actually late – but that is generally the story of my life. More…
This summer, delete your Facebook!
For the last few days I’ve found myself employed on a freelance basis for a large (and arguably faceless) multinational company looking into methods of using data and information gathered from social networks in their Business Intelligence (BI) Decision Support Systems (DSS). Having looked into the data types available the most important pearl of wisdom I can pass on is that you Facebook/Bebo/MySpace page is telling the world a lot more about you than you might like….