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Greg Young is a research vice president in Gartner and the lead analyst for network security. Mr. Young has experience in IT security in product companies, and in both the private and public sectors. He spent his military career in technology security… Read Full Bio

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Social Media Data Leaks: TMI

by Greg Young  |  July 28, 2009  |  2 Comments

TMI: Too Much Info.  Sure the below example isn’t as egregious (i.e. bad) as the others I’ve posted recently, but it falls into that soft gray category of TMI.

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See the other posts on this thread:

Social Media Data Leaks: Password Reset Helpers

Social Media Data Leaks: The Polarity of Security Models

and Social Media Data Leaks.

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  • 1 Followup Friday: Responsible Users? Patch Plethora Problems? In a BIND Bind? Safer Eensy Beensy URLs?   July 31, 2009 at 8:49 am

    [...] Update to “Brevity is the Hole In Twit“: I was really proud of that title – almost as proud as of the Gartner research note on national cybersecurity policy where I got this sentence past Gartner editing: “Gartner recommends a chief information security office versus a “big hat, no cattle” czar approach.” Anyway, one of the URL shortening services, Bit.ly, started warning users about potentially malicious shortened links. This is a very good thing – please follow suit, all you other link shorteners.  Also, Greg Young of Gartner had a good series of blog posts on Twitter leaking info here. [...]

  • 2 Fear of a Micro-Blogging Planet   August 18, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    [...] Gartner has written extensively about security problems in public consumer-grade micro-blogging platforms, as John Pescatore does very wittily here and Greg Young does here. [...]