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.
Promises restoration of suspended accounts, despite previous pledge to do no such thing Twitter CEO Elon Musk has decided to allow suspended accounts back onto the micro-blogging service.…
Didn't say they were good, though – covert ops apparently got 'little to no engagement' from targets In its latest quarterly threat report, Meta said it had detected and disrupted influence operations originating in the US, and it calls out those it believes are responsible: the American military.…
Meta has removed several accounts on Facebook and Instagram associated with the U.S. military, saying they were used as part of covert influence operations targeting the Middle East and Russia. [...]
The operation relied on many internet services, including Telegram, Twitter, YouTube and others
Meta Platforms on Tuesday said it took down a network of accounts and pages across Facebook and Instagram that were operated by people associated with the U.S. military to spread narratives that depicted the country in a favorable light in the Middle East and Central Asia
As the open source social media network blows up due to Twitter's troubles, researchers caution about vulnerabilities within the application.
Complaints about poor customer service flood Twitter
The warning is hosted on a real Facebook page; the phishing uses HTTPS via a real Google server... but the content is all fake