Lisa Severens, a clinical trials manager from Worcester, Massachusetts, learned the hard way when a virus took control of her laptop and started sending pornographic photos to her colleagues.
“I was mortified about having to deal with it at work,” said Severens, whose employer had to replace her computer because the malicious software could not be removed.
Cybercrime costs U.S. companies and individuals billions of dollars a year. Scams target and exploit those naive to the dark side of social networking, security experts say.
MySpace was the most-popular hangout for cyber criminals two years ago. Experts say hackers are now entrenched on Facebook, whose membership has soared from 120 million in December to more than 200 million today.
“Facebook is the social network du jour. Attackers go where the people go. Always,” said Mary Landesman, a senior researcher at Web security company ScanSafe.
Scammers break into accounts posing as friends of users. They send spam that directs them to websites that steals personal information and spreads viruses. Hackers take control of infected PCs for identity theft, spamming and other mischief.
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