Unified Communications

Palo Alto Networks recently released their ‘read-only’ Facebook functionality that can be implemented with the next-generation firewall and is available now at no cost to their customers.  The ‘read-only’ Facebook allows companies to enforce their Facebook policy by having finer-grained controls over their employee’s access to the popular social networking site.  This functionality lets companies [...]

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McAfee posted on its blog recently news about e-mail purportedly coming from Facebook urging recipients to open an attachment to get their new password on the site. Unfortunately the email is a scam to get not only users’ password of the popular social networking website, but potentially any accounts they use while using their computer [...]

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In response to Facebook’s privacy move, which leaves enterprises vulnerable to having confidential data shared with third parties, Palo Alto Networks released the App-ID™ in order to allow enterprises to control Facebook’s Social Plug-ins.  Facebook’s recent privacy changes permits behavioral data from its users to become available to others unless the user clearly selects otherwise.  [...]

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A malicious piece of software making the rounds on news websites recently is believed to be behind the compromise of over 75,000 systems in over 2,500 international organizations – many of which are government agencies and large Fortune 500 companies.
Called the Kneber botnet after the name in the email used to register the initial domain [...]

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Millions of us stay connected with friends, family and business contacts on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn and other social networking sites.
Some of the information posted on your personal site may seem harmless for the social networker, but could be a score for identity thieves.  Cybercriminals scan social networking pages to gather personal information for their [...]

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Security company Websense released a survey of 1,300 IT professionals worldwide revealing that although social media or the use of “Web 2.0″ technologies such as blogs, wikis and social networks are already pervasive in business, a majority of IT managers seem ill equipped to manage its use, much less protect against security concerns associated with [...]

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