Safe Social Networking Guide

Safe Social Networking Guide

Safe Social Networking Guide The more you come to rely on social networks for business, the more hackers are motivated to attack your accounts and steal your private information. This guide highlights the main security threats you need to worry about as you navigate the social Web. Everybody is on a social network these days. […]

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ITBE Staff
ITBE Staff
Oct 26, 2011

Safe Social Networking Guide

The more you come to rely on social networks for business, the more hackers are motivated to attack your accounts and steal your private information. This guide highlights the main security threats you need to worry about as you navigate the social Web.


Everybody is on a social network these days. They’ve evolved from a way for college kids to see who is single or in a relationship to key business marketing and communications platforms. And of course, as more people find value in a software platform, hackers have more valuable data to go after by cracking your social networking accounts.

This guide addresses the most common threats to social networking security, including third-party applications that may access and expose your personal information to bad actors.

Included in this zip file are:

  • safe_social_networking.pdf
  • Intro Doc.pdf
  • Terms and Conditions.pdf
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