REPORT: 93% Of Facebook Profiles Not Secured

Only seven percent of those surveyed by BitDefender use any security solution for their Facebook profiles, despite the fact that 87 percent have seen postings that look like rogue applications.

Only seven percent of those surveyed by BitDefender use any security solution for their Facebook profiles, despite the fact that 87 percent have seen postings that look like rogue applications.

BitDefender had surveyed 2,713 people between the ages of 18 and 65, and qualified that this doesn’t count as a representative sample for the entire social network.

Across this group, the average friend count was 137. And 83 percent of the contacts were a combination of current and former colleagues — either school or work.

Interestingly, the average user surveyed characterizes 42 percent of their friend lists as people they don’t actually know.

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