[pchelpers] Article:Facebook 'ideal' for phishing attacks: researcher

April 15, 2007 1:00:00 AM MDT

(CBC) - Privacy settings on social networking websites such as Facebook
give people a false sense of security that could expose them to phishing
attacks, a computer security researcher says.

Facebook and sites like it offer users the opportunity to share varying
amounts of information with others on the network, ranging from a
restrictive setting that lets only people designated as friends see
personal details, to one that lets anyone and everyone read the user's
profile.

"This illusion of privacy leads people to be a little freer in their
disclosure," Symantec Corp. security researcher Nick Sullivan wrote in a
post to the company's security response weblog on Friday.

A quick scan of Facebook profiles confirms his assertion, with a broad
range of information freely offered by the service's users.

The profiles can include e-mail and physical addresses, phone numbers,
birthdays, work and education histories and other information that can
be compiled into a comprehensive profile.

More here:
http://www.mytelus.com/ncp_news/article.en.do?pn=tech&articleID=2614120
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