ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet

SophosLabs is intercepting a spammed-out malware campaign, pretending to be an email about a revealing photo posted online of the recipient.

The emails, which have a variety of subject lines and...

A Websense survey ties use of social media to an increase in malware infections.

With the use of social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Google+ becoming more and more prevalent in the enterprise, companies are having to come to grips with additional security concerns that they bring with them. But, according to the results of a new survey of IT and security professionals, that process is still in its early stages in many companies.

The survey, conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Websense, found that a large number of companies believe that they are seeing an increase in malware infections and other security incidents as a result of the use of social media in the enterprise.

For example, 54 percent of respondents said that they had already seen or were very likely to see soon a loss of confidential information or a violation of a confidentiality policy because of employees' social media activities. And 52 percent of those surveyed said that they had seen an increase in malware attacks as a result of social media use.