Put yourself in the place of your customers, partners and suppliers.  If you received an email that appeared to be from one of them but it turned out the be phishing, would you still trust them?  Would that erode their brand in your mind?  Would you be more likely to check their legitimate emails for mistakes, issues, and threats?  Phishing using your domain hurts your brand, even when your customers know that you are not responsible! Further, phishing puts your email delivery at risk.  Increasingly, email inbox providers like Google, Yahoo! and Outlook.com look at the domain an email comes “from” and what the reputation of that domain is in their systems.  If your domain name has been used for phishing, then all of your email may come under additional scrutiny.  If uncontrolled, this could lead to mistaken blacklisting or lower inbox placement.Continue reading→

Cyber crooks use this dangerous weapon to get at the weakest link: us. They know that the easiest way to penetrate a system is to go after the user, not the computer. “Attacking the human element has always been a favorite,” says Jean-Phillip Taggart, Senior Security Researcher at Malwarebytes. “Why use some hard technical flaw to acquire a password when you can simply ask the user for it?”

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As marketers, we can’t afford to depend on one traffic source (that was designed in a desktop-driven universe) when our target market is now using multiple devices and various social media platforms for news. From Twitter, to Instagram, to Periscope, to Facebook, to Snapchat, the only way we can make sure we’re around for the long haul is to adopt as many platforms as possible and to build assets over all of them.

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Facebook does not have legal standing to challenge search warrants on behalf of its users, a New York appeals court has ruled in what was the biggest batch of warrants the social-media site said it ever received at one time.

Facebook objected to handing over the data and challenged it. The site was even threatened with contempt of court over the fight, so it reluctantly coughed up the data. Facebook was allowed to continue the challenge on appeal in a failed bid to set legal precedent for its users.

“The government’s search and seizure here would be unthinkable in the physical world.”

Read Full Article: Facebook blocked from challenging search warrants targeting its users

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