‘Badge Bragging’ Presents New Social Media Dangers

Posting about your new job on Facebook and other social networks is a good thing, but including a photo of your new badge—not so much.

Posting about your new job on Facebook and other social networks is a good thing, but including a photo of your new badge—not so much.

Symantec’s Cyber Security Services shared a blog post by Brian R. Varner warning of the dangers of “badge bragging” and how posting high-resolution photos of workplace badges could lead to big-time trouble.

Varner wrote that hackers have access to digital tools that can quickly process large amounts of information from posts on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, and he shared one example of how badge bragging could pose serious problems:

One such example involved a new employee—we’ll call him “Richard”—who just started a job at a prestigious hospital.

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