Posted on April 4th, 2009 by AZ
Category: facebook, Tags: british teenagers, facebook, security, social hackers, teens, tren micro, uk
A survey carried out by security firm Trend Micro has revealed that 40% of British teenager are “social hackers”. They have hacked into social networking sites such as Facebook for their own benefits.
The “new” idea of “social hacking” is that many social details are on view via social networking sites such as Facebook. A competent social hacker can find information which tends to give away security question answers. So that rather than rummaging through dustbins for passwords, social hackers simply rely on their Google-Fu.
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Posted on January 6th, 2009 by AZ
Category: facebook, Tags: abuse, facebook, myspace, research, safety, security, teenagers, teens, US
More than half of teenagers who use the social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace have posted information about sexual behavior, substance abuse/violence and other risky behaviors on their publicly available profiles. And that may attract unwanted attention from sexual predators or jeopardize their future employment prospects
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