Social Networking Sites - Growing Pains
Posted on March 21st, 2008 at 2:08 pm by Avatar

face1.jpgFaceBook has again reaped the attention of a hacker who managed to find a workaround at new privacy measures installed on the social networking site. FaceBook has long advertised its commitment to utmost security for it’s users (which has been proven wrong several times over) which have been targeted by hackers ever since they went online. The use of social networking sites at work is a real threat to corporate security for it can cause the leakage of confidential corporate data to the internet through tunnels in the security net that hovers above you. FaceBook has initiated measures by which users can restrict the amount of information fellow users can see. The function also allows a select group for select facilities which was quickly found by working around that very security net giving him access to the latest pictures that have been uploaded into the site. This occurred while all the new security measures and sharing abilities were turned on. People have a tendency to display confidential information all over the place and it would only be time before all security can be breached and the information stolen. Imagine a worker at the Department of National Defense who accesses a social network form his desk at the Pentagon who is currently reviewing plans for the latest ship defense systems. Imagine that information getting out and into the hands of the enemy (this by the way is for visualization purposes only for the Pentagon would have tougher security, or we sure hope they do).

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