INFOGRAPHIC: OVERSHARING - YOUR BIGGEST SECURITY RISK COULD BE YOU

Oversharing: Your Biggest Security Risk Could be You (Infographic)
By Nate Lord, Digital Guardian, 8 October 2015.

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, and this week's theme is Creating a Culture of Cybersecurity at Work. In celebration of the month and this week's theme, we've released an infographic on the security risks inherent to oversharing on social media - particularly for companies and their employees.

While many of the flashier headlines of today may tell of advanced malware and sophisticated attacks, social media remains an unspoken favourite tool for cyber criminals. By harvesting the information that is available across various social media platforms, attackers can develop highly targeted - and highly effective - campaigns that gain victims' trust and exploit emotions to steal sensitive information or establish entry points for future attacks. By learning the risks of oversharing and following some best practices for social media security, you can better protect your digital identity and your company's sensitive information without hampering your social experience.

Infographic Sources:
1. Rules and Policies - Protecting PII - Privacy Act
2. Facebook Data Policy
3. Twitter Privacy Policy
4. Instagram Privacy Policy: Information We Collect
5. Halifax teen charged with extortion over Facebook photo threats
6. I Handed Over My Facebook Password to an Indonesian Hacker. Now We’re Friends.
7. Are You Over The “Selfie” Culture? Is The US In Danger of a Social Shutdown? Why Aren’t Americans Doing More To Digitally Protect Themselves?
8. Stolen Twitter passwords 'worth more than credit card details'
9. Economics of Defense Against Cyber Threats
10. Year of the hack? A billion records compromised in 2014
11. Net Losses: Estimating the Global Cost of Cybercrime
12. The Cost to Consumers of a Data Breach

[Post Source: Digital Guardian. Edited.]