Remember when the enduring phrase for the web was, “You’ve got mail!”? Today, it's going to to boot be, “You’ve got friends!”
Last week I blogged concerning the anti-virus software available for the Mac, and the likelihood that viruses and malware aren’t only for PCs anymore. Portion of the issues for mac users, though, is that the dangers on the web are sometimes in line with Internet or application vulnerabilities instead of OS-based vulnerabilities. Social engineering goes to be a risk, whatever OS you employ, and it can be at the rise because social networking is at the rise. Who do you trust? Your folks.
But on the web needless to say, it’s plenty harder to grasp who your folks are, or even if it’s really your folks at the other end of the road. Many of the Facebook stories lately show people using FB in new wayssome of them for good:
For example, the man who bought targeted ads to check out to land a Microsoft job after graduation
Or, law enforcement tracking down fugitives who left the rustic with a ton of money, by watching their FB status updates
Then there are more insidious and evil uses for facebook
A generic phishing scam recently logged by PhishTank.org suggesting that Safari users are targeted
Scammers pretending to be your mates to get money from you.
Facebook is unquestionably at the rise, and the inside track media is representing it through a lot of these stories of other uses and scams at the site.
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