Employees Putting Up Job Information On Social Media Prone To Cyber Attacks

The next time you post details about your workplace and job description on social media websites, be careful. You could be the potential target of hackers and cyber criminals. Cybercrime experts and forensic consultants say hackers scour through the social media database of employees of organisations they intend to attack and send them phishing mails. A recent report by EY on ‘Cybercrime Incidents in India’ highlights how social media is emerging as one of the biggest risk zones for cyber attacks, with 90% of the 160 top executives responding to the survey, identifying it as a major source of cyber attacks.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: Economic Times