Despite the fact that social working sites like Facebook provide not only a range of new opportunities, but also open up dangers.
Having 400 million users, Facebook is regarded as one of the most well-known as popular social applications across the world. In fact, all these tools are developed in order users could meet online as well share some sort of information.
Moreover, half a billion people provide their personal information in different social networking sites. As a result, third parties are able to take advantage of the private information by means of applications that are integrated onto the social network sites, including social interaction tools as well as games. At present, Facebook offers more than 55,000 external applications.
According to the Sophos Security Threat Report, it was revealed that about 57 per cent of people that use social networking sites were hit by spam. 30 per cent came across phishing attacks.
A question was asked by an attendee of the conference whether it is necessary to ban Facebook in the office environment or not. The product manager of Southeast Asia, Kaspersky Lab, Alex Ng said that banning of Facebook may lead to other challenges for users, meaning that they would be able to find a way to access the tool.
In order to diminish the risk of data loss when using such social networking sites, it was suggested by, Kaspersky Lab’s Ng to develop a special bookmark specifically designed for the log-in page or one can type in the URL into the browser address bar in order to avoid clicking on links found in e-mail messages. Also users should know about the latest malware along with phishing attacks as it will help prevent users from getting into the same trap.
