The Social Web – Prime for Attack
The internet or social internet as it is now referred to, is alarmingly becoming the favorite target of hackers who are using several tactics to gain access to the millions of users who may be linked to these sites. The recent disasters at Twitter is just some of the most publicized ones due mainly to their prominent usage all over the planet. Security breaches in many other social sites such as Facebook and others have also exposed many people to some of the most dangerous criminal activities such as identity theft.
These companies are working hard to bolster their security measures as well as screening users for bots by implementing measures such as captcha and others that aim to separate the human from the automated bots that may be programmed to emulate human behavior. One of the biggest dangers is the opacity of the net which can have somebody assuming the identity of another simply by posing as them through the net.
Sites such as YouTube regularly conduct sweeps to rid their site of problematic video such as porn and others that tends to expose people to unwanted risks.