This will likely be an evergreen title. Right now it refers to the news that 50 million users were impacted by the exploitation of the token bug. Given Facebook’s tendency to roll out reveals of how bad breaches really are I expect to learn far more accounts were impacted and were more deeply impacted than first […]
A look at the role of social media in cyber warfare and how US military personnel, veterans and their families are targeted on social media. Presented at AUSA’s Army in Cyber Space Symposium Links to follow up reading are available here.
This article was originally published on Texas Computer Education Association. View the original here. In today’s world, much of our society happens online. It’s where people socialize, share ideas, and debate. However, it also isn’t without potential dangers. Extremist groups recruit online. Cyberspace has been added to land, air, and sea as the fourth arena of warfare. […]
Mark Twain observed, “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting its boots on”. In the technology of his day that was true. These days a lie can lap the planet three times and develop into a full blown conspiracy theory while Truth is still tying her laces. While […]
In this article we take a look at how Putin’s Internet Research Agency (IRA) games social media to give their disinformation stories the veneer of legitimacy. Think of it as a big pinball game. The ball is the fabricated news story. This is truly fake news. It isn’t a mistake. It isn’t an opinion piece. […]
Bots, bots, bots, here a bot, there a bot, everywhere a bot! — we keeping hearing about how Russian bots flooding our social media. But what is a bot really? The short answer is this: Bots are automated social media accounts — thousands of accounts run on thousands of phones controlled by a few people on […]
If you think things are bad with the fake news and doctored photos, just wait until you see what is coming. The technology to create fake videos has arrived. With this technology any video found on YouTube can be altered to make the target appear to say anything the perpetrators want. Watch this two-minute video to […]
A word to the wise marketing on social media, many of the marketing bots you followed in the carefree innocent days of Twitter have become the online equivalent of mogwai fed after midnight. Many of the accounts that used to post inspirational quotes between links to spam websites now spew violent, hateful tweets and tweets designed […]
Flanked by oceans on either side America has enjoyed the luxury of massive natural defenses in the three traditional arenas. The internet has eliminated these barriers. In today’s world the arenas of warfare are land, air, sea and cyber. In the cyber arena America is just as vulnerable as Ukraine which has been on the front […]
Before joining the next freak out claiming Twitter has deleted an account know how to tell when Twitter has suspended an account versus when the user has temporarily deactivated or deleted their own account. Here is the picture in lieu of a thousand words. Please feel free to download it and share widely the next […]