Page 4 - The Risk Management Group - The A to Z of Safe Social Media

Produced by The Risk Management Group 2012
Sanity Check Number One:
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Do you really know all of your online ‘friends’?
Relatively few social media users are
aware of just how many vulnerabilities
these services can have.
The failure of some leading social media
sites to introduce effective validation of
users’ identities means that fake accounts
are very easy to setup and use.
Social media users sometimes have no
idea who they are really connected to
and this can lead to them giving out
information that could be used by
fraudsters, burglars and other criminals.
A is for…
Awareness
Copyright Mark Johnson & Corinne Blandin, 2012