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Social networking sites supply valuable information to criminals - News - heise Security UK Social networking sites supply valuable information to criminals

Social networking sites are attracting not only more and more users from around the world, but also more and more criminals. Security specialists say that MySpace, Facebook, Orkut and other sites for making and preserving contacts often contain extremely valuable information that can be abused to facilitate targeted attacks on users. E-mails with malicious contents, for example, can be made to look far more credible and thus persuade a victim to open an infected attachment. The sender might pose as a business partner or colleague. Phishing E-mails, too, could be formulated more specifically - and spam E-mails compatible with addressees' hobbies could be sent.