â–¶ Cyber-Crime Threatens Digital Platforms: As more organizations allow employees access to social networking platforms for PR and marketing purposes, a survey of 502 companies worldwide by IT security company Sophos finds that cyber-attacks through social media sites jumped 70% between 2008 and 2009. Other findings include:
• Nearly three out of four surveyed fear that employees’ everyday activity on social networking sites exposes their business to danger and makes sensitive corporate data vulnerable;
• About half of the firms allow employees unfettered access to Facebook —a 13% rise from 2008—although one in three firms have blocked Facebook entirely; and,
• 60% of respondents named Facebook as the greatest security risk. MySpace took 18% of the vote, Twitter 17% and LinkedIn 4%.
Source: Sophos