Social Networking Risks Reduced by Frequency, Vigilance How many
social networking accounts do you have? Do you access them
often? Have you set up profiles on multiple sites and then
forgotten about them, or left others to wither on the vine after
using them frequently for a time? While it may be impossible to
completely prevent attackers from hijacking your accounts and
attempting to aim threats at your friends and colleagues,
managing your social networking accounts on a more active basis
and enlisting all of the security and privacy tools that the
sites offer can dramatically reduce the risk of such incidents,
experts with Symantec maintain. This advice may seem obvious,
but, with the proliferation of so many social networking
applications, let's face it, it's hard not to sign up for some
sites, connect with people you know and then fall out of love
with the apps. The rise of multifarious social engineering
attacks carried out over social networks has created a whole new
world of risk for users of the syst