Social Media and its influence

AVG has partnered with Facebook to protect Facebook’s one billion users from the phishing and other social engineering attacks that continue to plague the community.

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http://blogs.avg.com/consumer/avg-facebook%E2%80%99s-partnership-protect-facebook-users/?utm_source=AVG+Blogs&utm_medium=twitter

AVG: Android Malware Is Pushed via Twitter and Facebook...

“We detected a big increase in the use of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter to target Android users. Cyber criminals are finding it very convenient to distribute their malware straight to a mobile device via these networks,” said Yuval Ben-Itzhak, chief technology officer at AVG.

“The growth of the Android platform has been phenomenal, which has not gone unnoticed with cyber criminals who have discovered it to be a lucrative target for their malware. In 2011, Google had to remove over 100 malicious apps from the official Android market, Google Play.”

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