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Guard your social profile. Privacy: How to protect yourself from data brokers. Empowering Consumers. Protecting Privacy. Federal Trade Commission. Criminals target mobile devices and social networks. 5 April 2011Last updated at 05:13 Facebook applications can provide the personal information needed to create a targeted attack Smartphones and social networking sites are likely to become the next big target for cyber criminals, according to a security industry report.
Symantec's annual threat analysis warns that the technologies are increasingly being used to spread malicious code. Users of Facebook, Twitter and Google's mobile operating system, Android, are said to be particularly vulnerable. However, the number of attacks remains small compared to other online crimes such as e-mail phishing.