Connect.me sign-up rush exposes risky behaviour of social networkers

Every day we seem to warn the readers of the Naked Security site about the danger of rogue applications and unknown parties gaining access to your social networking accounts.

Scam apps claim – amongst other things – that you can find out who your top 10 stalkers are on Facebook, or how many hours you’ve spent on Twitter, or claim to offer up a video of a girl commiting suicide on her webcam.

The cybercriminals’ intention is to gain access to your social networking account, so that the can spread their links virally, and drive even more traffic to their money-making schemes.

And so you would think people would be…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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Graham Cluley is a veteran of the anti-virus industry having worked for a number of security companies since the early 1990s when he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows. Now an independent security analyst, he regularly makes media appearances and is an international public speaker on the topic of computer security, hackers, and online privacy. Follow him on Twitter at @gcluley, on Mastodon at @[email protected], or drop him an email.