Consumer Reports has published results of its �State of the Net� survey in the June 2010 magazine. Bottom line: there are twice as many people using social media as a year ago and a lot of them aren�t very security aware.
The study of 2,000 households was done online in January.
A few of the results:
-- 40 percent posted full birth date on their social media page, opening themselves up for identity theft
-- About 25 percent of those households with a Facebook account weren't aware of Facebook privacy controls or didn�t choose to use them.
-- Nine percent of social network users experienced a malware infection, scam, identity theft or harassment.
CR said: �Overall, we estimate that cybercrime cost American consumers $4.5 billion over the past two years. And it caused them to replace 2.1 million computers.�
Web news piece about the survey here.
Their web news piece on the survey includes links to a good brief security how-to: �7 Things to Stop Doing Now on Facebook�
Tom Kelchner
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