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Web 2.0 Social Networking Security and Privacy

From Mary Brown | May 19th, 2009

Social networking tools have seen a fair amount of press lately to the ways in which hackers use these tools to commit crimes.  PC Advisor reports a French hacker that gained administrative control of Twitter by compromising the account of an employee.  That is what is known as an ‘adverse event’ in anyone’s world. PCWorld  posted an article describing five different security problems involving Facebook in a single week, in March 2009.

Are you are protecting your organization from the threats that have come about through an increase in Web 2.0 applications and social networking sites? 

Tell us what strategies you use to mitigate these risks.

 

 

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