Can your real friends on Facebook also can make you vulnerableAbsolutely. Your security is only as good as your friends security. If someone in your network of friends has a weak password, and his or her profile is hacked, he or she can now send you malware, for example.There is a common scam called a 419 scam, in which someone hacks your profile and sends messages to your friends asking for money claiming to be yousaying, Hey, I was in London, I was mugged, please wire me money. People fall for it. People think their good friend needs helpand end up wiring money to Nigeria.A lot of Web sites we use display banner ads, but do we have to be wary of them on FacebookAbsolutely Facebook has not been able to screen all of its ads It hasnt done a great job of vetting which ads are safe and which are not As a result, you may get an ad in your profile when you are browsing around one day that has malicious code in it In fact, last month, there was an ad with malware that asked people to download antivirus software that was actually a virus.
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