Top 10 social networking threats

Social network tools have changed the way we interact in our personal lives and are in the process of transforming our professional lives. Increasingly, they play a significant role in how business gets done. But they’re also high risk. With hundreds of millions of users, these tools have attracted attackers more than any other target in recent years.

Social network sites: Block or not?

Here, according to Palo Alto Networks, are the top 10 social network threats/risks that enterprises must consider when developing policies:

1. Social networking worms: Social networking worms include Koobface, which has become, according to researchers, “the largest Web 2.0 botnet.” While a multi-faceted threat like Koobface challenges the definition of “worm,” it is specifically designed to propagate across social networks (e.g., Facebook, mySpace, Twitter, hi5, Friendster and Bebo), enlist more machines into its botnet, and hijack more accounts to send more spam to enlist more machines. All the while making money with the usual botnet business, including scareware and Russian dating services.

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