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 2,000 of British users had connected to someone that they didn’t know. Security firm, Intel Security, polled almost a quarter 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.
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.