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While the basic risks of social media are well known to most enterprise security managers, there are many dark corners of social media that can be just as dangerous or even more so. Here are three ways that social media can sneak malware and exploits across your corporate firewalls, and ways that you can pay attention and hopefully prevent their misuse. The biggest issue is that many corporate executives don't really know what is going on across their networks, and don't have any visibility into the traffic patterns and potential exploits.

Secure Socket Layers and Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) is the foundation of Web security. Banks, travel booking sites, social networks like Facebook and Twitter, email services and a plethora of other industries built their security based on the fact that it is very hard to crack SSL. Yet, a group of researchers has figured out how to do just that.

SSL encryption protects data in transit from the client to the server. This communication happens very rapidly and the encryption effectively makes a secure tunnel for information. The researchers that have cracked SSL used a vulnerability that until now was considered only a theory. Like wormholes.

Just before announcing that Chrome was taken out of beta last week, Google released a browser security handbook for Web developers that details the key security features of the main Web browsers.

Released under a Creative Commons 3.0 license, the document provides a comprehensive comparison of security features of the commonly used browsers; IE (version 6 and 7), Firefox (version 2 and 3), Safari, Opera, Chrome and the lesser known Android embedded browser.