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Posts Tagged ‘social networking’

5 Top Tips for Safer Social Networking

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

Majority of our social networking tips and ‘How to’ articles are aimed at organizations managing and reporting on network traffic to improve online safety at work.

This time around I thought I share some tips focusing on how individuals can ensure they’re being smart and safe when engaging in social networking activities. Hopefully these tips can assist you, or the people working in your organization, in avoiding being exposed to the dark side of social networking where hackers, identity thieves, fraudsters and stalkers are lurking in the shadows.

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Security Threats Increase with Growth in Social Networking – Blocking still not the Answer

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

IT security firm Trend Micro recently released results from their latest study surveying 1,600 end-users in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Japan. The study focused on employees’ use of corporate computers while on corporate LANs.

Trend Micro found that the use of social networking sites grew globally from 19% in 2008 to 24% in 2010.The fact that the use of social networks is growing, and will most likely continue to grow, probably doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone, but it is always interesting to attach real figures to this trend.

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Top 10 Stupid Things you can do at work to get yourself fired!

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

  1. Browse for awesome porn!
  2. Find awesome porn and then attach it to a group email, sent to everyone who works with you in accounting…
  3. Overrun your lunch hour by 4 hours because poker_champ03 is beating you at 5 card stud…
  4. Write an email to your lover describing in intimate details what you would like to do to them tonight.

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More Students Bypassing Schools’ Internet Security

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

International Business Times (IBT) recently reported that “Many young people are turning to proxy servers to get round their school’s internet security systems to access banned websites, including social networks and gaming sites.”

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Another Reason Organizations Should Avoid Excessive Internet Blocking

Friday, November 27th, 2009

Google Alerts have become an invaluable tool to keep track of WebSpy’s online presence and mentions. I’m also alerted on keywords related to other players in the Internet Security Industry. The last couple of weeks I have noticed quite a steep increase in alerts on a well-known internet blocking and filtering vendor. Majority of these alerts are linked with the frustration of being blocked and how to go about disabling and bypassing the blocking and filtering rules put into place.

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How should Employees use Social Media?

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

WebProNews is an online news site covering the latest developments in search engines, SEO, social media marketing and online advertising and I have been subscribing to them for many odd years. Recently they have been posting interviews, surveys and comments in relation to the use of social media.

New research from Robert Half Technology indicates that over half of chief information officers (CIOs) do not allow employees to visit social networking sites for any reason while they’re at work. This information comes from a survey of 1,400 CIOs from companies around the US with 100 or more employees.
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Notes on E-Security Development

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Today, I had the pleasure of attending Western Australian Internet Association’s first (out of four) breakfast events. The main topic on the agenda was E-Security and a panel of expert, representing commercial, government and educational bodies, were there to shed a light on the latest developments.
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