Social Media Security Podcast 1 – Zombies, Bad Facebook Apps, Twitter SPAM

This is the first episode of the Social Media Security Podcast.  This episode was hosted by Scott Wright and Tom Eston.  Below are the show notes, links to articles and news mentioned in the podcast:

• How did socialmediasecurity.com get started?  Want to help out?  Join our mailing list!
• Weaponizing the Web: More Attacks on User Generated Content (good article on Nathan and Shawn’s talk)
• Aviv Raff’s Month of Twitter bugs, research on Facebook applications by theharmonyguy
• What are the Black Hat and DEFCON conferences?
• History of DEFCON, Black Hat and the security underground (ThreatPost interview with founder Jeff Moss)
• Twitter Botnet Found
• Want to know more about SPAM bots? Tom’s presentation at Notacon 6: Rise of the Autobots: Into the Underground of Social Network Bots (slidedeck)
• Tom and Kevin’s presentation at DEFCON 17 “Social Zombies: Your Friends Want to Eat Your Brains”
• KreiosC2: Command & Control PoC for Twitter
• Two more rogue Facebook apps linked to Fucabook scam
• Twitter Profile Image SPAM
• Staying clear of Twitter SPAM
• Private profiles on Twitter. Worth the effort?

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