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Social Networks and Cybercrime

Contributed by Rick DeVan on May 13, 2011 at 10:01 am ET

Resource: Social networks hotbeds for cybercrime, says Microsoft via the New Zealand Herald.

“Phishing” attacks that use seemingly legitimate messages to trick people into clicking on booby-trapped links, buying bogus software, or revealing information rocketed 1200 per cent at social networks last year, it said.

Be aware. Be very aware.

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