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. The survey also revealed that nearly half (47%) of those surveyed said it is “very important” for them to know if there has been any breach at work – up from just over one third 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.