Category: Online reputation management
November 11, 2014
Electronic Frontier Foundation Rates Message Encryption Services
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the largest organization dedicated to Internet privacy and related issues. Its resources are considered the gold standard by many experts. That’s why their Secure Messaging Scorecard caught our attention.…
September 8, 2014
The New Demands of Online Reputation Management
The explosive growth of the Internet has dramatically changed the demands of reputation management. The manipulation of search engine results—what used to be considered the central activity of ORM firms—has lost its utility as search…
August 21, 2014
OUCH! Tackles Encryption
OUCH!, the security awareness newsletter from the SANS Institute, covers the basics of encryption in its August edition. OUCH! is the world’s leading, free security awareness newsletter designed for the common computer user. It is…
May 23, 2014
Wikipedia Grapples with Paid Editing
As we discussed in March, Wikipedia was considering an amendment to its terms of use that would require more disclosure from editors that are paid to contribute to the online encyclopedia. Now the Wikimedia Foundation…
May 7, 2014
Top Online Reputation Management Issues Facing Hedge Funds
International Investor’s new list of top earning hedge funds of the last year has put them top and center of the financial industry’s news cycle. Not that they are ever far from it. That is…
April 21, 2014
Beware the Black Seeds of Online Reputation Management
Felony extortion charges were recently filed in Dallas against a man who purported to provide online reputation management (ORM) services, but threatened to undermine a client’s reputation as a way of demanding payment. It isn’t…
March 27, 2014
How to Avoid the Dangers of Email
More and more often, a fresh batch of compromising emails threatens to torpedo a reputation, whether it’s Chris Christie staffers coordinating political retaliation, the swirl of exchanges that sparked the Petraeus scandal, or the embarrassing…
March 6, 2014
Wikipedia May End Anonymity for Contributors
In January we shared some tips for publishing and editing pages on Wikipedia. Now the popular crowd-sourced encyclopedia may soon enact a significant change to the disclosure it requires from its editors. The Wikimedia Foundation…