British companies are being urged to better educate their employees to the dangers of sharing too much personal information on social networks , LinkedIn . New statistics suggest that almost a quarter of British users had connected to someone that they did n’t know . Security firm , Intel Security , polled 100 people in the survey , discovering that 68.7 % admitted to never thinking about whether a connection was bona fide or not . Increasingly , cyber criminals use sites like blogs to gather information about employees and their role within an organisation . Typically , they target junior and mid - level employees before using these ‘ valid ’ profiles to target more senior personnel . All the information that is mined is subsequently used to make targeted attacks more convincing .
British companies are being urged to better educate their employees to the dangers of sharing too much personal information on social site, LinkedIn. New statistics suggest that almost a quarter of British users had connected to someone that they didn’t know. Security firm, Intel Security, polled 2,000 people in the UK, discovering that 68.7% admitted to never thinking about whether a connection was bona fide or not. Increasingly, cyber criminals use sites like LinkedIn to harvest information about employees and their role within an organisation. Typically, they target junior and mid-level employees before using these ‘valid’ connections to target more senior personnel. All the information that is mined is subsequently used to make targeted attacks more convincing.