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Social Network Sharing Makes Users an Easy Target for Cyber-Criminals

A Quiz from Kaspersky Lab has found that almost a third of social network users share their posts, check-ins and other personal information, not just with their friends, but with everybody who is online. This is leaving the door wide open for cyber-criminals to attack, as users remain unaware of just how public their private information can be on these channels. A surprising 12 per cent admit adding anyone to their list regardless of whether they know them or not. A third of users will also accept connections from people they dont know, if they have mutual friends in common, but this could expose them to more unknown people even advertisement agents or cyber-criminal.”]

Source: https://informationsecuritybuzz.com/study-research/social-network-sharing-makes-users-an-easy-target-for-cyber-criminals/

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