Thursday, February 4, 2010

"Alarming" rise in cyberattacks at social networks: Sophos

A warning for all of us who use social networks, which means hundreds of millions of people around the world.

From the article, "The Sophos study found that 57 per cent of online social network users reported getting spam in their virtual communities in what amounted to a 70.6 per cent jump from the prior year.

"Some 36 per cent of social network users queried said they had been sent software orms, viruses or other types of "malware" in what amounted to a 69.8 per cent leap from the previous 12-month period, according to Sophos."

The full story is here:"Alarming" rise in cyberattacks at social networks