Growing use of social networking sites is leaving PC inadvertently open to identity thieves warned Hugh Thompson, chief security strategist at People Security. Thompson said that people were unaware just how many clues they left for fraudsters. He said such carelessness was fuelling the rise of cybercrime. He told the conference about the way he managed to access one of his wife s friends bank account in a couple of hours using publicly available data a process that he had previously documented in a Scientific American article.
Source: https://threatpost.com/consumers-should-clean-their-act-personal-security-102109/72493/