The Risk Management Group - The A to Z of Safe Social Media

Sanity Check Number One:

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Do you really know all of your online ‘friends’?

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Relatively few social media users are aware of just how many vulnerabilities these services can have. The failure of some leading social media sites to introduce effective validation of users’ identities means that fake accounts are very easy to setup and use. Social media users sometimes have no idea who they are really connected to and this can lead to them giving out information that could be used by fraudsters, burglars and other criminals.

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Produced by The Risk Management Group 2012

Copyright Mark Johnson & Corinne Blandin, 2012