NovaInfosecPortal.com » social networking http://www.novainfosecportal.com News, events, & resources for infosec professionals in NoVA, DC, & MD Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:37:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Grec’s Weekly Infosec Ramblings for 2009-04-12 http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2009/04/12/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2009-04-12/ http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2009/04/12/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2009-04-12/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:00:00 +0000 grecs http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2009/04/12/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2009-04-12/ This week, we saw a lot of tweets relating to DojoSec, which included information on Dojosec videos and related pictures.

We also spent a lot of time tweeting with Marcus J. Carey (DojoSec founder) this week, discussing everything from the latest DojoSec meetup videos and pictures to our latest adventures with the Mac we bought for our parents.

The most awesome things about Macs? Lower security risk, which would have been great for all of the people who felt the wrath of Conficker this week.

In addition to Conficker, their was a lot of tweeting about general security news this week, including problems with social networking, identity and security, and insecure security tools.  

Local infosec bloggers provided excellent insight and commentary about some of these issues.

And lastly, security professionals encountered more news that simply stated the obvious.

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]]> http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2009/04/12/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2009-04-12/feed/ 0 Social Networking Site Lockdown Suggestions for Professionals http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2008/08/19/social-networking-site-lockdown-suggestions-for-professionals/ http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2008/08/19/social-networking-site-lockdown-suggestions-for-professionals/#comments Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:36:02 +0000 grecs http://www.novainfosecportal.com/?p=242 A few weeks back I noticed a great little CSI newsletter being passed around the office that provided links to three great guides on how to lock down your profiles on MySpace, FaceBook, and LinkedIn. As a paranoid security person I’ve severely restricted my activities on these sites but have always yearned after the possible networking opportunities. Using these guides you can somewhat minimize the risks associated with putting your personal information online. I haven’t tried any of the suggestions yet but I’m guessing that if you implement them all, it probably makes the service a lot less usable. Such is the tradeoff between security and usability… When skimming the guides I was shocked to discover the one site I thought was most secure, LinkedIn, actually had the least amount of security controls in place. I’m still treading lightly but maybe you’ll see me more active on these sites some day. Here are links to the guides: MySpace, FaceBook, and LinkedIn.

You may want to pass these nice little guides around to any family and friends so they can tighten down their profiles as well. Also for anyone out there that uses these services more than I do, what do you think of these guidelines? Will they severely limit their usability?

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