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A CSO Breakfast Club member in Baltimore sent me this link to an article about a recent discovery of 100 million Facebook user's pages on a torrent site.  The danger of this huge list of Facebook users and their personal data is it opens them up to data mining for potentially malicious intent.

I found this interesting article in the NY Times that helps explain the somewhat addictive nature of social media sites like Facebook.  The article makes light of the merry-go-round of changing Facebook privacy settings.  The author explains that users of Facebook find these privacy setting changes almost as painful doing their tazes or dealing with the utilities.  Take a look and give me your thoughts.

At today's DC Chapter meeting, member Pablo Molina of Georgetown University graciously offered information regarding registration for the upcoming Internet Governance Forum USA to be held at Georgetown.  Here is the page for more information.

An update on recent developments in information security.

Many of our firm's employees and consultants are Gen X and Gen Y'ers.  These employees use social media services for nearly all their communications.  Email is almost passe' for this group.

For most members of the CSO Breakfast Club, social media represents a clear security risk for a number of reasons. Social media sites have become a haven for malware insertion.  Additionally, users of social media services often post information that is considered sensitive.

Jody Westby of Carnegie Mellon has updated her Governance of Enterprise Security: CyLab 2010 Report.  In it, under her biography, Dr. Westby mentions that she had presented the findings of her original report to members of the CSO Breakfast Club during our Legal Update series this past January.

We are excited to be a part of this influential report on corporate governance and are pleased to have the updated report available to members here.

I provide video analysis of recent events in information security, including data relevant to our upcoming series on Social Media.

- Bill

The CSO Breakfast Club is hosting its next breakfast series on the topic of Social Media - Its Impact on Enterprise Information Security and Privacy.  CSO Breakfast Club Members - spread the word!  We are looking for executives from the social media companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Yahoo, AOL/AIM and others to address us and tell us why we should not be concerned.

Have them contact me immediately at bill@csobreakfastclub.com

This Thursday, June 17th, at our Boston Chapter breakfast roundtable on Cloud Security we will hear from IANS Faculty Member Joshua Corman.  Joshua Corman is the Research Director for Security at The 451 Group.  In addition to hearing from Joshua we will hear from experts at Solutionary and Sourcefire, our event sponsors.

This past week we wrapped up breakfast sessions in Baltimore and DC.  Our members seem to have a strong opinion about the cloud.  Given that most of our members are CISOs from rather large enterprises, they expressed reluctance to move much into the cloud until security is better defined.