Facebook: six years and 400 million users. But the risk lies
Facebook malware off six candles and prepares to celebrate not only the anniversary but also the target of 400 million registered users worldwide will cut very soon. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the most popular social network in the world celebrated the birthday Blog Company entitling his talk with a symbolic "Six Years of Making Connections." Connections - the words of the young CEO - "have made the world more open and connected" and the group of billionaires led Zuckerberg. Today those who have an active profile on Facebook have over 350 million, of which about 18 million in Italy, 50% of members access the site daily, 35 million update their "status" every day and you stay connected to the average Social network for more than 55 minutes daily. Millions of people who chat, share photos, and more and enjoy games and applications, now more than 500 thousand. Facebook continues to his followers to "give" news, the latest in order of time the top menu (which you can now find notifications, requests and more recent messages) and collergamenti Home and Profile. Small details, graphics and functionality to make it even easier browsing experience of users, they can move forward without criticism or resentment as sometimes happened in the past.
If the issue of privacy is a problem at the time exceeded Zuckerberg (with such beneficial effects on users, however, is to understand everything), the risks to its further rise called malware and spam. In fact, according to last reports Sophos security for the second half of 2009, junk mail and virus attacks have increased the order of 70% and just the two currently most popular social site, Facebook and Twitter, are being targeted by cyber criminals. The data which closely concern the people who surf on the social networks speak for themselves: 57% received spam messages, 36% was seen delivering malware. A growing number of people daily exchange personal information and sensitive data on social networks - note from Sophos - and hackers have sniffed an opportunity because too many Web 2.0 sites are concerned only to consolidate its market share at the expense of safety computer. Hence the not disinterested advice: "the social networks and their users must do more to defend attacks, identity theft, spam and malware, the scope of which is becoming increasingly worrying proportions. " The risk of being
steal personal and sensitive information they feel sure the managers, considering that 72% of the 500 organizations surveyed by the American company sees in the behavior of their employees on social networking sites a serious threat to the security of enterprise systems . Too bad that Sophos has also found that 49% of companies (13% more than last year) employees have access to Facebook at all freely. Another figure that will certainly not too much pleasure to deal with the perception Zuckerberg risk related to a single social site. When asked "What do you think social networks is the most serious threat to the security of your computer?" 60% of respondents chose it Facebook, MySpace and Twitter with virtually the same level (18% and 17% respectively) and LinkedIn cited only 4% of cases. A shadow that does not obscure today, the success of the most popular social network on the planet, but that certainly can not be underestimated.
rif.to / The sun 24h / Gianni Rusconi
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