This is the Shared Security Weekly Blaze for April 16, 2018 sponsored by Security Perspectives – Your Source for Tailored Security Awareness Training and Assessment Solutions, Silent Pocket and CISOBox. This episode was hosted by Tom Eston.
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This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for April 16th 2018 with your host, Tom Eston
In this week’s episode: Facebook goes to Congress, More Data Breach Announcements and a New Hope for Replacing Passwords
The Shared Security Podcast is sponsored by Silent Pocket. With their patented Faraday cage product line of phone cases, wallets and bags you can block all wireless signals which will make your devices instantly untrackable, unhackable and undetectable. Visit silent-pocket.com for more details.
Hi everyone, I’m Tom Eston, Co-host of the Shared Security podcast. Welcome to the Shared Security Weekly Blaze where we update you on the top 3 security and privacy topics from the week. These weekly podcasts are published every Monday and are 15 minutes or less quickly giving you “news that you can use”.
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The Facebook news continues this week with the announcement of a new tool to see if you or your friends shared personal information with Cambridge Analytica. This tool won’t tell you who of your friends took the quiz called “This Is Your Digital Life” but will just say how many of your friends may have taken the quiz. If this tool tells you if some of your friends took the quiz which allowed your data to be harvested, be sure to scold them until you find out who did it. Just kidding but you may want to make a post about it so that your friends are aware of what they did. Also within this tool Facebook gives you a link to review the information you share with other third-party apps. So check out our show notes for the link to this tool and for more information.
In other Facebook news, Facebook confirmed recently that it uses automated tools to scan private chats within their Facebook Messenger application for malware links, child porn and other violations of its terms of service. This news was surprising to many users of the Messenger app as most people thought that these conversations were not being monitored by Facebook. Just so you’re aware, the only conversations that are not able to be monitored by Facebook are “secret” conversations which only work on the Apple iOS and Android versions of Facebook Messenger. Facebook’s secret conversation feature is actually the same end-to-end encryption protocol used by Signal, which is one of the most popular secure messaging applications that you can use. To use secret conversations you have to enable this
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