Sunday, March 7, 2010

The Risk of Social Networks

In the last few years daily internet users been increased significantly. Online social networking sites is the main cause for spend more time online in the day in personal lives. Obviously these have opened up new opportunity to share knowledge, ideas and common interest in a way that would otherwise be impossible.

However, openly sharing details our personal lives in online can evolve potential security risk. Although these details may seem harmless, easily any one can make life significantly for identity fraudsters being able to find a date birth, full name, home address, contact no’s on an online profile. This allows any fraudsters easily set up a credit card in someone else’s name and use it for any kind of fraud stated works.

As a good practice social networking users should not appear their full names, phone numbers, addresses and family member’s details. If someone really wanted to do it share only with the friends know well personally instead of public for everyone

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