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Fri 10 Oct 2009Identity theft a growing menace to social networkers
PEOPLE POSTING apparently innocuous information on social networking sites could leave themselves open to identity theft, a computer security conference heard this week.
Presenting a keynote address at the RSA conference in London, People Security’s chief security strategist Hugh Thompson said that while posting on social networks has grown, “there hasn’t been a commensurate education about what information we should be sharing”.
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