Peaches Posted June 27, 2009 Report Share Posted June 27, 2009 Study: Social Network Users Put Their Data At Risk Users of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter leave themselves -- and their wallets -- open to attack Jun 27, 2009 | 12:48 AMBy Tim WilsonDarkReading"Members of online social networks may be more vulnerable to financial loss, identity theft, and malware infection than they realize, according to a survey released earlier this week. In a survey of more than 1,100 members of Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, and other popular social networks, security vendor Webroot says it has uncovered numerous behaviors that put social networkers' identities -- and wallets -- at risk. Two-thirds of respondents don't restrict any details of their personal profile from being visible through a public search engine such as Google, the survey says. More than half aren't sure who can see their profile. About one third include at least three pieces of personally identifiable information. More than one third use the same password across multiple sites and a fourth of respondents accept "friend requests" from strangers, the study states. "Three in ten people we polled experienced a security attack through a social network in the past year, including identity theft, malware infection, spam, unauthorized password changes and 'friend in distress' money-stealing scams," said Mike Kronenberg, CTO of Webroot's consumer business. " Details of the survey can be found here. - http://www.webroot.com/En_US/about-press-r...s-revealed.htmldetails ... darkdreading - http://www.darkreading.com/securityservice...Section=Privacy Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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