Report on leaks of information - Protection of Information 3 - ч. 21

With the identification number of them were pro-whether in its own database and tracked their every action on the web. Among the firms co-torye received from application user ID, for example, was the company RapLeaf, which specializes in paradise, data bases with information about the people for their fur-necks sales outside companies. usb documents protection

After reports of leaks Administration Facebook-it tried to calm down the public, reporting that it would take measures to strengthen data privacy. Some applications, noticed the transfer ID to the party really over time were closed, but not all.

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Facebook also representatives noted that, in some cases, developers applica-tions may themselves not be aware that their program provides data on any user-defined, since applications are written on technology and hidden features that are used to obtain information.

Thus, we see that even the not too important at first glance, the information such as the identity of the social network, if desired, may result in the sufficiently large amount of confidential information about a person. And when you consider that the user ID passed on outside companies for quite some time (the exact number - is unknown and can not be counting), we can conclude that this leakage is also a very, very serious.

Recently, as ordinary people and experts around the world are increasingly on social networks is noted as a potentially dangerous source of infection of malicious software-tion, leaks of confidential information, and financial losses for companies. And my self-dangerous and harmful social networks, of course, is Facebook, because of its mass. Thus, according to the study Panda Security, 73,2% of U.S. companies faced with leaks of classified information through the network called. Other dangerous from this point of view mid-visy - Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn.