Cisco: Social Media Newest Playground for Cyber criminals

Cisco issued its Annual Security Report for 2009, which highlights the impact

of social media, particularly social networking, on network security and

explores the critical role that people, not technology, play in creating

opportunities for cybercriminals. The Security Report also includes winners of

the 2009 Cisco Cybercrime Showcase and discusses trends in cloud computing, spam

and overall global cybercrime activities that information technology

professionals continue to face. Social media experienced explosive growth in

2009. Social media adoption is expected to continue growing into 2010,

especially as more organizations realize the value of social networks as an

absolute business requirement. Social networks have quickly become a playground

for cybercriminals because members of these sites put an inordinate amount of

trust in the other members of their communities and often fail to take

precautions to prevent the spread of malware and computer viruses.

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