Unexpected social media threats

I posted a blog today at ESET that highlighted  a piece at (flagged by @FSecure) Discovery News about 5 Unexpected Threats of Online Social Networking. Those issues include hidden charges for online games, information leakage through online apps, apps that charge excessively and silently for SMS updates, fake Facebook (et al) login pages, and Londoning, which I’ve talked about here and here.

More at http://blog.eset.com/2010/09/20/social-media-5-unexpected-threats.

David Harley CITP FBCS CISSP
ESET Senior Research Fellow
Small Blue-Green World