Facebook: 200 million members…or potential targets?
By Justin E. Gehrke, CISSP, CIWSP, MCSA, CompTIA Project+/Security+/A+
Okay, I’m beginning to feel like the lone skeptic. Am I the only one left who still sees more dangers than benefits to social networking? As a security-focused, IT professional, I remember Facebook’s birth in 2004. As I reviewed it, I also remember wondering if it was a tool that cyber-criminals or malicious users would embrace, to further their arduous (if not truly evil) efforts. Though I recognized it as a technical innovation with a good degree of potential, no one could have imagined the size to which it would grow in such a short time. As it grew, third-party developers were able to create add-ins, to increase the scope of its use. As could be expected, users embraced the ability to chat, post messages, share photographs and video, and much more…all in one place.
