- Past six months has seen over 400 cases of Facebook crime reported in Sri Lanka
Courtesy The Sunday Leader - By Abdul H. Azeez
Poor security measures on Facebook
Facebook, we all use it. Even your tuk-tuk driver is probably on it. It’s such a popular, useful social networking platform that it has attracted millions of users globally as well as in Sri Lanka. There are more than half a billion Facebook users globally and an estimated 2 million of them are Sri Lankans. That is, one in every ten Sri Lankans is on Facebook.
But just like anything else, Facebook is also easily abused. And it is all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Reports of cyber crimes, perverts and hacked profiles among other things have been around social networks for as long as social networking has existed. Many users have had some sort of unpleasant experience on Facebook at least once or twice. The very nature of social networking can unwittingly open you up to these dangers. Cyber criminals enjoy a huge amount of anonymity, can employ remote-operated programs and subversive tactics to access your information, and can be extremely hard and even impossible to trace.
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But just like anything else, Facebook is also easily abused. And it is all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Reports of cyber crimes, perverts and hacked profiles among other things have been around social networks for as long as social networking has existed. Many users have had some sort of unpleasant experience on Facebook at least once or twice. The very nature of social networking can unwittingly open you up to these dangers. Cyber criminals enjoy a huge amount of anonymity, can employ remote-operated programs and subversive tactics to access your information, and can be extremely hard and even impossible to trace.
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