Facebook Users Vulnerable Cyber Crime

The survey is conducted online is being conducted for the second quarter of 2009, with the number of users of 250 respondents selected at random.

Online survey conducted by the AVG and the CMO Council found that many users of social networking sites like Facebook security less care of their own. As a result, they become easy targets of criminals in cyberspace.

According to poll results widely, both social networking site users in homes or offices, the following are the most basic security are often not implemented by the participants:

1. Change Password (64% sometimes or never)
2. Addition of privacy settings (57% sometimes or never)
3. Gives information on the social site administrator (90% sometimes or never)

Besides the social networking site users are also often become victims of such crimes, data theft, malware infection to a phishing attack.

"As the population grows a global social networking and the development of a limited social network in which the supply of extended mobility to achieve a social community is also increasing threat and vulnerability," said Donovan Neale-May, executive director of the CMO Council, through a written statement received ITGazine

Source : detikinet (indonesian language)