Social Zombies Revisited: Your Friends Want to Eat Your Brains

On this week's episode, We're excited to bring you a classic conference talk that Tom Eston gave with co-host Kevin Johnson back in 2009 at DEF CON 17 in Las Vegas. The talk is called "Social Zombies: Your Friends Want to Eat Your Brains" and it explores the various risks and concerns related to malware delivery through social networking sites.



We discuss how social networks make money and the privacy and security issues that arise due to the trust built …

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