Social networking sites pose danger to law firms

While corporations and professional firms such as law practices tend to focus their attention on controlling and restricting employee access to Internet sites while at work, they rarely consider the potential danger presented by social network sites such as Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and personal blogs that their staff might be using legitimately in their own time. Recent years have seen an enormous rise in social engineering, in which hackers and spies use personal and corporate information, obtained by various methods of subterfuge, to infiltrate a company, usually by hacking into their computer system.

Social networking sites pose danger to law firms lawyersweekly.ca Wed, Jan 23, 2008