“There are so many people on social-networking sites that it is becoming profitable for bad guys to go there,” David Perry, global director of education at software security firm Trend Micro, recently told Agence France-Presse (AFP). “Bad guys can see all the things you post. You may be revealing personal information that is extremely valuable.”
Now Facebook has made revealing personal information even easier. This past week, it announced that users can change their privacy settings so everyone can see their profile. The company was actually responding to a request from many users who wanted the ability to share their information with even more people."
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
Cautionary tales from the social-networking universe
Labels:
cyber crime,
cybercrooks,
Facebook,
myspace,
odnoklassniki,
social-networking,
vkontakte
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