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Scammers get better tools for tapping social networks

by Ben Halpert 17. February 2010 00:01

Scammers get better tools for tapping social networks

New tools capable of quickly finding, gathering and correlating information about individuals from social networking sites and other public sources are giving online scammers a powerful new weapon, say security researchers.

The tools allow potential attackers to build detailed profiles of individuals by finding and piecing together bits and pieces of information about them scattered on social sites and other public forums. The information can then be used in highly targeted, "spear-phishing" scams and other attacks against individuals and enterprises, they said.

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