This is the Shared Security Weekly Blaze for April 9, 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 9th 2018 with your host, Tom Eston
In this week’s episode: The #DeleteFacebook Movement, Cloudflare’s New Privacy Focused DNS Service and the Saks Fifth Avenue and Panera Data Breaches
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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Ever since the Facebook Cambridge Analytica controversy an online movement has started to form called #DeleteFacebook. The delete Facebook movement is in response to Facebook’s recent privacy firestorm regarding the way the social network collects your personal information. I’m sure many of you have had friends or family either say they are quitting Facebook or are planning on doing so because of everything that’s been going on in the news about Facebook recently. Having said that, I wanted to quickly talk about the #DeleteFacebook movement and how it applies to what we talk about on this podcast.
When Scott and I started this podcast back in 2009 it was called the “Social Media Security” podcast and for very good reason. Social networks like Facebook were just starting to get popular and it seemed like the wild west in regards to the lack of privacy controls as well as awareness of social network security issues. As the years went on we began speaking more about social network risks and privacy issues but also how to use them safely. We soon realized that all of us were going to use social media at some point so how can we use it with some sense of balance between our privacy and the need to share information with friends and family. Education became the theme rather than “delete your accounts and never use social networks”. In fact, Scott and I make it well known that we use social networks like Facebook all the time and even promote engaging us on various social media platforms so that we can have conversations about these important topics. We strongly believe that education, through the use of social media, can make the most impact to others about privacy and security issues.
One of the taglines that the podcast developed over the years is, “we bring you stories, advice and tips to make better risk decisions because no one else can make them for you.” This tagline is what this podcast is all about and tells us that it’s your decision to use Facebook or not. Like most everything in life, there is always
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