Category: Social, Technology
Tags: Business, Confidence trick, Department of Homeland Security, facebook, Government Accountability Office, List of United States federal agencies, social media, social media monitoring, twitter, United States Department of Homeland Security, youtube
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Less than one third of federal agencies using social media have created safeguards against hackers looking to exploit their accounts to launch cyber attacks against government networks, according to a report released Thursday.
The report by the Government Accountability Office found that nearly all — 23 of 24 — major federal agencies are now using Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to provide information about agency activities and interact with the public. But just seven agencies have identified and documented security risks and taken measures to prevent hackers from using those sites to gain access to federal information systems, the report found.
The study found some agencies had taken security measures for social media. For example, the report found the Department of Health and Human Services blocks the use of social media sites by employees except for those using them for business needs. But the State Department told GAO investigators they had no plans to assess the agency’s social media security because its internal policies did not require it.
Jul
22
By pratyushkp
Facebook Comments Now Feature Video Playback And Website Previews
Category: Social, Technology Tags: Comments, Content (media), facebook, Open Graph protocol, Rotten Tomatoes, Uniform Resource Locator, Video, Web page, youtube Leave a Comment
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Facebook has added a new feature allowing users to embed photos, videos and website previews into comments. Now, if you include a URL in a Facebook comment, you’ll be able to preview content from the web page that URL links to.
For example, if your friend posts about the new Harry Potter movie and asks if it’s any good, you might paste a link to the film’s Rotten Tomatoes review page. The new comment will let your friend–and anyone else who can view that post–see a sample of the content on the Rotten Tomatoes, such as the movie’s rating and a promo graphic.