The impact of increasing use of social media among professionals and companies was singled out as one of the biggest threats faced by businesses in 2011 at an IT security briefing in Sydney yesterday.
John Reeman founder and chief technical officer of firm VMinformer said that social media sites offered all the ingredients for a security crisis.
"The world is changing and we're all adopting social media very, very quickly so we see this as one of the top (security) threats in 2011 and moving forward," Mr Reeman said.
"There are three main reasons for this. The first is that they're hugely popular. The second is that they foster a culture of trust. If you couple them with a third, that they have inherently insecure code behind those web sites, then you've really got the elements of the perfect storm," Mr Reeman said.
The increasingly sophisticated methods that social networking sites use to monitor their members' activities both while their logged into sites like Facebook and after they leave were among concerns raised by security specialists at the meeting.
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Read MoreJohn Reeman founder and chief technical officer of firm VMinformer said that social media sites offered all the ingredients for a security crisis.
"The world is changing and we're all adopting social media very, very quickly so we see this as one of the top (security) threats in 2011 and moving forward," Mr Reeman said.
"There are three main reasons for this. The first is that they're hugely popular. The second is that they foster a culture of trust. If you couple them with a third, that they have inherently insecure code behind those web sites, then you've really got the elements of the perfect storm," Mr Reeman said.
The increasingly sophisticated methods that social networking sites use to monitor their members' activities both while their logged into sites like Facebook and after they leave were among concerns raised by security specialists at the meeting.
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