Social networking is meeting an unfriendly visitor — social engineering. Social engineering tactics — scams that depend on user-interaction to execute an attack against them — rose dramatically in 2006. Over the past 12 months, Internet users got a little savvier to fake e-greetings and breaking news stories that tempt them to click on a link. They’ve learned through tech news headlines or first-hand personal experience that those links lead them to phishing sites and may secretly install spyware on their computers.
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Social Networking Sites in the Crosshairs?
Posted by: Jennifer LeClaire January 3, 2007 04:00 AMSocial networking is meeting an unfriendly visitor — social engineering. Social engineering tactics — scams that depend on user-interaction to execute an attack against them — rose dramatically in 2006. Over the past 12 months, Internet users got a little savvier to fake e-greetings and breaking news stories that tempt them to click on a link. They’ve learned through tech news headlines or first-hand personal experience that those links lead them to phishing sites and may secretly install spyware on their computers.