Security Giant Sophos Criticizes Facebook for Surge in Social Network Attacks

According to the latest security report published by Sophos, spam and phishing attacks have substantially increased, on social networking sites, over the past year. Of the 1000 respondents which were polled, around 82 percent named Facebook as the biggest threat to security. This is a 22 percent increase compared to the survey of last year.

Sophos polls suggest that around 40 percent of the users quizzed, have received malware such as worms via social networking sites.