Articles on Social Networking

• Social Networking A Quick Look at Defensio for Protecting Facebook Activities
  Websense Defensio is a Facebook app that alerts users to spam, malware distribution attempts, and links to undesirable content. Due to Facebook API limitations, it can only alert rather than...
• Privacy Teens on Formspring Are Redefining Privacy Norms
  Sites like Formspring encourage teens to answer personal questions that mirror password-reset security questions—favorite colors, restaurants, and pet names. As privacy norms change and more personal...
• Social Networking Security Scoreboard - "Yelp" for Enterprise Security Products?
• Social Networking When Bots Chat With Social Network Participants
  Scammers use compromised social network accounts for malicious chats—currently with human operators, but increasingly automated bots. Creating intelligent chat bots for Facebook is straightforward...
• Social Networking When Bots Control Content on Social Networking Sites
  Bots on social networks build fake friendships to improve reputation, mimic human profiles to evade detection, and flood discussions with spam to drown out legitimate content. Social networking sites...
• Malware When Malware Distributes Links Through Social Networks
  Malware like Koobface spreads on social networks by posting links from compromised accounts—people click because they trust friends' shares. Telling users to stop clicking won't work. Better tools...