Employees using social networking sites putting companies at risk

Employees using social networking sites at work, such as MySpace and YouTube, are putting their companies at risk, new research suggests.

Security-testing firm NTA Monitor has warned that due to the soaring popularity of these websites the number of people accessing them in the workplace is increasing.

This is concerning as tests show that many companies' web servers and web-based applications are vulnerable to attacks that can be launched via these type of sites. This is because attacker... (308 more words)

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