Social media is all the rage now. Everyone who is anyone is using it and many of them are getting taking to the cleaners from a security point of view. They have weak passwords, click on any and every link. Tell the world every little thing that they do and where they are. They post company info that shouldn’t be posted and they post pictures that most of us don’t want to see.

As security professionals we see this and we laugh, cry, scream and cringe at what we see. We tell those who will listen, laugh at those who won’t listen and in general just wish people would use some common sense.  Unfortunately common sense is in short supply for many who use social media. I know someone who recently had her Facebook account compromised because she clicked on a link on a friends profile that promised to tell her who was stalking her on Facebook. She got pwned and then sent messages to all her friends that she wished had not been sent.

What we need is a well written comprehensive document that gives us some good common sense advice we can just hand to someone (or send them a link to it) that will help them stay safe on the intertubes. It just so happens that Brad Dinerman has written such a document and you can find it here and pass it on to those you know who could use some help with their Social Media activities.