By ADuch -

Today, social media plays a major role for many individuals and firms. The rise of social media has changed the way individuals and firms communicate, and it continues to change and grow each year. However, because of the increasing number of users in each outlet, users become vulnerable to attacks and malicious content on the Internet.

In recent news, Facebook has agreed to partner up with Websense, Inc. to protect Facebook users from potential online threats and content. Facebook chose Websense because “Websense has been analyzing and classifying the Internet for more than 15 years, and now all Facebook users will be protected by the same core technology.” This technology is their Websense ThreatSeeker Cloud which will be used as Facebook’s new security service. This platform will ultimately identify any malware and prevent any data loss by analyzing anything that might potentially be harmful to Facebook users.

With the addition of this new platform, Facebook users are now protected and aware of any potentially harmful links. If a user clicks on a link, it will go through the Websense database and warn the user if they have stumbled upon anything threatening.

Here’s more on the partnership between Facebook and Websense:

http://www.darkreading.com/advanced-threats/167901091/security/vulnerabilities/231700073/facebook-and-websense-partner-to-protect-users-from-malicious-links.html

By c-emmons -

 

Recently, blogs have been suffering a lot of scrutiny in the eyes of web surfers everywhere.  With the addition of such multimedia sites as Facebook, Twitter and Flickr, it seems like the “old-fashioned” way to reach out to a mass of people has become a thing of the past.  However, is succumbing to these generational obsessions the best way to voice opinions?  With all of the new ways to get your voice heard lets not forget how it all started.

The reason why people are so drawn to these new systems is due to their ease.  What was once time and effort spent to generate a blog is now the brevity of Twitter (which allows you only 140 characters per post).  Don’t get me wrong these tools are extremely useful in many marketing and social aspects, but do we need to completely rid ourselves of the intimacy that blogging brings?  You could argue that there is not much intimacy left in the world of blogging and you would be correct.  Many of the average joes have been overshadowed by larger bloggers who have turned it into a business.  Personally, I’m going to keep blogging.   If you want insightful text about specific issues, look for it.  Digging deeper into the web instead of simply scratching the surface is a great way to bring blogging back.