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Researchers Outline Security Risks Posed by Social Networking Sites (eWeek)

As part of their coverage of the Black Hat security conference, eWeek's Brian Prince has written on the perils of "friend-spoofing" and some of the other security risks presented by popular social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.

"...Security researchers at Black Hat laid bare some of the security risks users of social networking sites such as MySpace face as Sophos releases new information about an attack targeting Facebook.


Sometimes our friends aren't really our friends. Just ask security researchers Nathan Hamiel and Shawn Moyer..."

Read the eWeek article "Researchers Outline Security Risks of Social Networking Sites"

D.J. Smith is Co-Founder & Senior Principal at WebDriven. A 15-plus year veteran of the Internet, he still remembers - albeit not too fondly -- how to setup a gopher site.

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