Social network users go to them to communicate not only at home but also at work, endangering hacking and malicious software on desktop computers. In addition to purely technical possibilities of extracting information that are spam attack, the pseudo anti-virus, "Trojan horses" and "worms", the harm may be caused by the user, overly trusting in the security of information posted on the social network.
In recent years, through the computers in your organization or individual users of social networks is carried out by cybercriminals, the so-called phishing - narrowly targeted attack in order to obtain important information and specific sensitive data. Attackers introduced into target groups or "mimic" under them, using in order to inspire confidence, inner-public information of the company. This is made possible thanks to the trust users to communicate one or another group.
Sometimes criminals use the information the user is registered in one social network in order to replace it himself in another social network, where he did not open the account. This is done in order to obtain private information by pretending to be another person. So you can get information about moving the interlocutor and, taking advantage of his absence, for example, to rob the apartment.
Personal information is posted on the network, at any time can become the property of the person to whom it was not intended. We know the tragic cases even related killings, when close people discover that they are being deceived and could not accept this. So be careful and try not to spread a network of information that is not intended for prying eyes.