Sixty per cent of businesses claimed that Facebook is a risk social networking site, as revealed by the security vendor, Sophos.
Meanwhile, a similar opinion was also expressed by Kaspersky Labs pointed Microblogging site Twitter, which was rising-a second networking site after Facebook risky.
Sophos did a survey of 502 IT professionals. The result, business was seeing a lot of malware and spam floating around the virtual realm.
The Sophos report titled “Security Threat Report: 2010″, mentions that as many as 33 percent of IT professionals to choose blocking Facebook for productivity reasons, while 21 percent of survey respondents reported that they or a network of friends who have received malware via social networking sites will lost control of the site access. As many as 72 percent of the company also believed that employees who often had a tendency for Facebook ria could endanger the company’s business.
Another horrendous thing to come from Twitter. Dmitry Bestuzhez (Senior Regional Researcger Kaspersky Labs), reveals that Twitter has been offered for U.S. $ 1000 by a hacker forum. “Tweet can contain URLs. Well, most of the users trust to click the link in the tweet. This is certainly a trap for many people to act criminal. The more follower, the more the risk of malware infection, “explained Bestuzhez. This is where the danger. Sendible facility could be misused in the spread of malware. The reason is assumed Twitter can be used to infect other malware to your account.