Covers how social media can expose personal data, spread scams, enable account takeover, and provide channels for influence or abuse.
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Social media comprises online services where people and organizations publish content, communicate, and form networks. The term covers public posts, private messages, groups, live streams, advertising systems, and the APIs and third-party applications that process platform data.
For security teams, these platforms expose identity, relationship, and behavioral information that can support targeted phishing, impersonation, or social engineering. Compromised accounts may be used to distribute malicious links or fraud, while excessive sharing and poorly controlled integrations can expose personal or corporate data. Relevant controls include strong authentication, phishing-resistant account recovery, least-privilege access for connected applications, monitoring for brand and executive impersonation, and clear retention and privacy policies. Public posts and platform telemetry can also provide threat intelligence, but collection and use may be constrained by privacy obligations and applicable data-protection rules.
While AI platforms and tools promise to offer encouraging potential in healthcare, many are unprepared to deal with the risks these emerging technologies pose - similar to the early days of social media, said Keith Fricke, co-managing partner and principal consultant at tw-Security.
While artificial intelligence platforms and tools promise to offer encouraging potential in healthcare, many are unprepared to deal with the risks these emerging technologies pose - similar to the early days of social media, said Keith Fricke, partner and principal of tw-Security.
California User's Class Action Suit Says LinkedIn Violated Contract, Privacy RegsA LinkedIn user has sued the company for flouting privacy requirements by allowing third-party companies to access user data - including Premium users' private messages - to train their artificial intelligence models. A LinkedIn spokesperson called the lawsuit "false claims with no merit."
Incoming president promises to allow ongoing operations for 90 days just as made-in-China app started to go dark US president-elect Donald Trump appears to have proposed the government he will soon lead should acquire half of made-in-China social media service TikTok’s stateside operations.…
TikTok is back up in the United States after Trump announced today that he would extend a 90-day deadline for the company to find a U.S. purchaser. [...]
TikTok shut down in the U.S. late Saturday night following the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the law that banned the company over national security concerns. [...]