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Mar 23
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With the recent buzz about facebook and other social networking sites, I felt a quick post about the pitfalls of using these resources might be in order.
There’s nothing wrong with using Facebook, but keep in mind how important it is to configure, and what information you place on it.
A few tips:
· Don’t allow anyone that isn’t part of your network of ‘friends’ to see your profile.
· Don’t allow non-friends to see your friends. Why? I could easily impersonate one of your friends, fake a new profile, and send you an invite. You accept, thinking a genuine friend has created a new profile, then I’m in your network of friends and can see your profile.
· Think about what information is in your profile. What would be useful in stealing your identity? Date of birth, address, email address, employer, interests. why does this type of information need to be on your profile? Everyone that knows you is likely to know this information already! Those who don’t know you don’t need to know it.
· The two main risks of Facebook are that an identity fraudster could steal your identity, or a hacker could compromise your business by compromising one of your staff. This might be achieved by coercion (dodgy photos of work nights out?) or by using the information they disclose to set up a compromise of their laptop or PC.
As the old saying goes, an ounce of prevention….
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