SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Social engineering attacks have long been a threat to businesses worldwide, statistically comprising roughly 98% of cyberattacks worldwide. Given the much more psychologically focused and methodical ways that social engineering attacks can be conducted, it makes spotting them hard to do.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Improving overall security posture: The insights gained from red team exercises can be used to enhance security policies, procedures, and technologies. Some common approaches include: Social engineering: Red teams often employ social engineering techniques to exploit human vulnerabilities.

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TM Forum

AUGUST 25, 2021

The hype around 5G has largely focused on network speed but communications service providers (CSPs) know that a different kind of speed is even more important: Speed of innovation. These include in-app ordering (84% say they plan to continue), home delivery (82%), shopping via social media platforms (80%), and more.

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The Verge

JANUARY 11, 2021

After Parler was banned on both the Apple and Google app stores for failing to curb violent and threatening content on its platform, the social media site is now completely offline as a result of Amazon terminating Parler’s web hosting services. Amazon told Parler of its decision late Saturday, in a letter to chief policy officer Amy Peikoff.

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Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

It’s the opposite of a firewall and VPN architecture, where once on the corporate network everyone and everything is trusted. The traditional reliance on firewalls and VPNs for cybersecurity is proving inadequate in the face of mounting cyberthreats and changes to network designs due to the cloud.

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Vox

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Social media companies like Facebook and YouTube have ramped up their policies against coronavirus misinformation and banned false claims about Covid-19 vaccines. While platforms tend to tout new policies designed to curb misinformation, they don’t always find and remove all the content that violates their rules.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 29, 2016

Graph databases most commonly associated with social networks and recently adopted by enterprises are now being looked into by government agencies and the civil services to manage big data. An Aid To Government Policy. As well as gleaning insight, graph databases can also help government with policy creation. Emil Eifrem.

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

A spokesperson for parent company Facebook tells The V erge this recent change in policy is an expansion of an earlier rule specifically banning ads promoting the practice put in place earlier this year, and that the policy now includes a ban on any content that directly promotes the practice, too.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Will the National Security Community be capable of offering security protection, including security advice, for massive commercially or privately owned networks of sensors and remotely controllable devices? Office of Science and Technology Policy. National Institute for Public Policy. Director for Cybersecurity Policy.

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

Facebook has removed a network of anti-government accounts associated with the fringe “ boogaloo ” movement after designating the group as a dangerous organization, the company said. The network does not have a distinct name from the larger movement; Facebook simply calls it “the violent US-based anti-government network.”

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Raytheon Wins Prime Contract for DHS’ Network Security Deployment Division. CIA Social Media Team: We Use Twitter to 'Explain Our Mission' - Nextgov. House panel calls for policy to free up federal spectrum - The Hill. Building the infrastructure for big data - GCN.com. Defining the CDO - GCN.com.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 29, 2021

To that end, the social network has been using everything from executive statements to newspaper ads and even shoving policy changes in users'. By now, it's no longer a secret that Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature in iOS 14 has prompted Facebook to essentially declare war on the Cupertino giant.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Over the last couple of weeks, social media networks have finally enacted a glut of the content moderation policies that critics have spent years demanding. The latest crackdown comes from YouTube, which announced on Thursday that the ban hammer is dropping on QAnon videos—with caveats, of course. Read more.

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Vox

MAY 17, 2022

“It’s a tragedy because you only need one copy of the video for this thing to live forever online and endlessly multiply,” said Emerson Brooking, a resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank who studies social media. A spokesperson for Meta confirmed to Recode that posts with the Streamable link did indeed violate its policies.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

And on Monday, Facebook made one of the biggest policy reversals in its history, banning posts that deny or distort the Holocaust. But the 2018 controversy still caught Facebook by surprise because the policy Zuckerberg cited was not a new one. But for far too long, they had an unwitting ally in social networks.

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The Verge

MARCH 18, 2021

The social network has designated the shooting to be a “violating event,” a classification that it’s previously used for the US Capitol riots in January this year and the killing of two people during Black Lives Matter protests in Kenosha in August 2020. Eight people were killed in the attack.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And one of the most successful and increasingly prevalent ways of attack has come from social engineering, which is when criminals manipulate humans directly to gain access to confidential information. Social engineering is more sophisticated than ever, and its most advanced iteration is the topic of today's discussion: deepfakes.

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Vox

APRIL 19, 2021

Now, two senators are turning their attention to the vaccine misinformation superspreaders that push the bulk of conspiracy theories and lies on social media — and asking the social media giants to take more aggressive action. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2022

Today’s work from anywhere culture, escalating ransomware, and an explosion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices are among the trends that are driving enterprises to rethink their approach to secure network access. Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) have long been the go-to method for providing remote users secure access to the corporate network.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 13, 2022

Average download speeds in Saudi Arabia have reached more than twice the global average at 322 Mbps, according to network-testing company Ookla. 5G enables network slicing — a technique that allows multiple virtual networks to run on top of shared infrastructure, so that they can be flexibly tailored to different groups’ specific needs.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

A new study, published this week in Science Advances , argues that Meta’s Covid-19 policies may not have been effective. Anti-vaccine content had the agility to outpace policy shifts on multiple levels, the paper argues. Anti-vaccine influencers are skilled at this because they’ve had a lot of practice.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

There’s also a big social component: You follow people, people follow you, and Clubhouse very much encourages these networks to form and grow. When I joined, I didn’t give Clubhouse access to my contacts; as has been my policy since childhood, only I may decide who enters my clubhouse. So informative.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 21, 2021

A federal judge in Seattle has denied an initial attempt by Parler to require Amazon Web Services to restore cloud services to the controversial social network, referencing the Jan. 10 , saying that it had failed to properly moderate abusive and violent posts, in violation of the AWS Acceptable Use Policy. 6 breach of the U.S.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

The National Cyber Security Hall of Fame is composed of individuals who collectively invented the technologies, created awareness, promoted and delivered education, developed and influenced policy, and created businesses to begin addressing the cyber security problem. These innovators truly deserve a place in the Hall of Fame.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Meta’s licenses and its acceptable use policy contain numerous restrictions on how enterprises may use the models, flying in the face of traditional definitions of open source software and in particular of the new Open Source Initiative definition of open source AI. Keeping control However, anyone wanting to use the latest Llama 3.2

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

We have previously discussed research and analysis we did for the Cyber Conflict Studies Association on the many “Wake-Up Calls” the nation’s policy makers have declared themselves to have had regarding cyber security. Or maybe you can find ways to educate policy makers or Congress or the American public?

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Network World

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Network spending overwhelmingly favors incumbent network vendors, as any enterprise will tell you. How does a network startup fit in, then? Startups, and the venture capitalists that back them, aren’t stupid either, so we can already see examples of how network startups address this money focus.

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Vox

APRIL 17, 2020

For years, Timothy Mackey has been researching the sale of opioids and illicit drugs online , tracking how dealers have used social media to push controlled substances. There’s no proven treatment for Covid-19, but plenty of social media accounts are nevertheless illegally pushing so-called cures or treatments.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 17, 2020

These changes will impact Facebook’s lucrative ad business, but the social networking giant is framing them as something far larger that could impact small businesses. This is just the latest in an ongoing public spat between Apple and Facebook over iOS 14 privacy and policy changes, and follows Apple’s new App Store privacy labels.

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The Verge

JANUARY 12, 2021

WhatsApp has published a new FAQ page to its website outlining its stances on user privacy in response to widespread backlash over an upcoming privacy policy update. That’s something the company feels it is required to disclose in its privacy policy, which it’s now doing after previewing the upcoming changes to business chats back in October.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Today, I am excited to welcome Dr. DJ Patil as Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Data Policy and Chief Data Scientist here at the White House in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. As Chief Data Scientist, DJ will help shape policies and practices to help the U.S. DJ Patil as the First U.S. Chief Data Scientist.

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The Verge

JUNE 19, 2020

Just about every social media feed you browse is trying to personalize its content to your interests in one way or another. The company has never been able to break into the social space, a venue of online activity that generates scads of lucrative data for targeting ads. This is obviously not a particularly revelatory pitch.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As I reflect on the biggest technology innovations during my career―the Internet, smartphones, social media―a new breakthrough deserves a spot on that list. Given that we are still in the early stages of Generative AI, organizations should regularly review and evolve their policies as needed.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Recent breaches including those at the NSA, Target, and Sony illustrate the damage that can be done to an organization though the malicious or careless use of network and data access. Policies: In many cases an organization's security policies and procedures can be improved to help mitigate insider risks.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

We are now prohibiting Russian state media from running ads or monetizing on our platform anywhere in the world,” Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of security policy announced on Twitter. Facebook has since established a Special Operations Center to help the network monitor and respond to the developing conflict.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The lesson here for companies is that attackers don’t need to discover new threats or sophisticated methods of penetrating your networks. Initial access Initial access consists of various techniques attackers use to gain access to your network. Let’s revisit the most prevalent security threats and see how they’re evolving in 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sikorski discusses where attackers benefit from AI and how it will supercharge social engineering attacks. As Sikorski aptly puts it, “Lowering the bar for social engineering attacks means attackers are less likely to be caught due to language inconsistencies.”

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