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Social Networking Blocks Increasing
David Utter
Staff Writer
2008-03-06
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MessageLabs believes more businesses have been blocking access to social networking sites to safeguard users; companies block from 13 to 47 percent of such sites by their analysis.
A belief that sites like MySpace could be conduits for malware, as has been demonstrated by criminals pushing exploits through the popular web destination, may be having a fallout effect on social networking sites in general.
Security vendor MessageLabs said they have observed more organizations stopping access to social networking sites from the corporate office. Productivity and safety concerns motivated those actions.
"Online criminals are going to greater lengths than ever before to reach their targets. Not only are we seeing a significant increase in the number of targeted Trojan attacks, but they often appear to be based on prior intelligence gathered about their targets," Mark Sunner, chief security analyst at MessageLabs, said.
To protect these enterprises, security pros increasingly opt to do so through filters. But some of the more thoughtful pros do so by only limiting certain actions users can take on a site, MessageLabs said in a statement.
Ideally, those steps will keep people from inadvertently pulling malware onto their systems. The need for such protection stems from the targeting noted by Sunner. Criminals love to reach systems with access to content like accounting data or any other financial information. Keeping them out remains an important goal for security pros.
About the Author:
David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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