We can't emphasize this enough: social networking sites are a tremendous opportunity for small business owners and etailers to market their products and services. They also provide cybercriminals with tremendous opportunity to steal your customers' personal data.
Small business ecommerce owners need to educate themselves about the risks involved. eSecurityPlanet has the latest trends in cybercrime and social networking.
Sophisticated campaign tracking and dramatically increased use of social networking technologies, such as Facebook and Twitter, were two of the top trends in cybercrime in 2009, according to a new report released Tuesday.
Criminal attacks using social networking sites increased by 500 percent between 2008 and 2009, according to the Blue Coat Web Security Report for 2009, by application delivery network provider Blue Coat Systems. That makes those sites the top focus for cybercriminals’ activities
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