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As cyber threats evolve, cities and counties need to safeguard staffers’ mobile devices

American City & Country

LeMaster continues: “If someone clicks on the link, they may be directed to a phishing site and asked to provide credentials and multi-factor authentication (MFA) tokens, or surveillance-ware could be installed on their device, allowing attackers to access their government accounts or monitor device activity.

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Why World Backup Day is relevant everyday

Open Access Government - Technology News

It started as a post on Reddit in 2011 and has grown to see up to half a million people visiting the official website each March 31st. Advance fee fraud, where a large sum of money is promised in return for a small upfront fee, accounted for 17%.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

The Chief Digital Officer Jason Goldman for the Obama administration published to his Medium account “[the] American people will see a multi-platform streaming and social broadcast of the State of the Union that reflects the ways people experience live events in 2016. Social media is a bridge of sorts. Bush in 2004.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Something similar has happened with the Internet and social media. Early views of social media (e.g. Any attempt to relate the current anomie to disaster risk reduction (DRR) must take account of the 'egg hypothesis'. Social media in disaster risk reduction and crisis management. Bilham 2011.