Barracuda Labs recently revealed their findings in a 2011 Social Networking Security & Privacy Study, which focused on social networking usage, security & privacy.The results were based on survey responses collected over a two week span from hundreds of social network website users representing over 20 different countries.
Judging from the results, it seems a lot of bad stuff tends to float around social networking sites.
Nearly ninety two percent of survey respondents stated they’ve received spam on social networks, while only a little over fifty four percent of them claimed to have been phished. Thankfully the numbers of folks saying they were sent malware, had their account send spam, or flat-out hijacked were 23.3%, 16.6% and 13%, respectively.
I guess it’s no surprise that only 5.9% claimed to use the once-popular Myspace network since 84% of those surveyed revealed that's where they felt the most unsafe.
Take a peek at the 2011 Social Networking Security & Privacy Study infographic:
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