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Phishing attacks target users of Facebook, other social networks
Phishers are turning to less traditional ways to steal personal data, latching on to the inherent trust people have in social networks to game the system and ultimately score more lucrative data. While spam phishing messages continue to plague inboxes, toolkits have enabled less savvy attackers to easily produce more sophisticated ways to dupe people into freely giving up their data. The amount of information people post to social networks like Facebook and Twitter has also made it much easier to social engineer people into thinking a link or message is legitimate, said Paul Wood, a senior analyst at Symantec's MessageLabs Intelligence. As Wood explains, traditional email
