YOU'RE ON FACEBOOK? OUT!
Facebook is the world's largest online social network, and increasingly, the destination of choice for messaging friends, sharing photos and videos, and collecting "eyeballs" for business advertising and market research. But, watch out! It's also a great place for losing your identity or being attacked by malicious software.
How could that be? Facebook has a security team that works hard to counter threats on that site. It uses up-to-date security technology protect its Web site. but with 800 million users, it can't police everyone and everything, and facebook makes an extraordinarily tempting target for both mischief-makers and criminals.
Facebook has a huge worldwide user base, an Web site, and a community of users linked to their friends, lts members are more likely lo trust messages they receive from friends, even if this communication is not legitimate. Perhaps for reasons, research from the Kaspersky Labs security firm shows malicious software on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpacc is 10 limes more successful at infecting users than attacks. Even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerbcrg law his Facebook fan page hacked in 2011.