Discuss the risks of social networking sites.
What will be an ideal response?
Although using any Web site has risks associated with it, social networking sites can carry additional risks. These risks include:
* Personal data can be used maliciously. Users post personal information on their pages for others to read, such as birthdays, where they live, their plans for the upcoming weekend, and the like. However, attackers can use this information for a variety of malicious purposes. For example, knowing that a person is on vacation could allow a burglar to break into an empty home, the name of a pet could be a weak password that a user has created, or too much personal information could result in identity theft.
* Users may be too trusting. Attackers often join a social networking site and pretend to be part of the network of users. After several days or weeks, users begin to feel they know the attackers and may start to provide personal information or click on embedded links provided by the attacker that loads malware onto the user's computer.
* Social networking security is lax or confusing. Because social networking sites by design are intended to share information, these sites have often made it too easy for unauthorized users to view other people's information. To combat this many sites change their security options on a haphazard basis, making it difficult for users to keep up with the changes.
* Accepting friends may have unforeseen consequences. Some social networking users readily accept any "friend" request they receive, even if they are not familiar with that person. This can result in problem, since whomever is accepted as a friend may then be able to see not only all of that user's personal information but also the personal information of their friends'.
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