significant rise in social networking spam

The last 12 months saw a significant rise in social networking spam and malware, as Facebook is identified as the riskiest website - SC Magazine UK.

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“Data mining (both legitimate and criminal) will have a wider range of effects on individuals, and some of those effects will be far from beneficial. A notable example is Facebook’s lack of commitment to a realistic security model, which would be a very significant supplement to its rather generic security centre advice. It seems to me that Facebook is encouraging its users to share as much information as possible while essentially making them responsible for the security of their own data.”