CSO: Social media, the gateway for malware

Why the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) doesn't give an accurate picture of the security risks from social media sites

By Kacy Zurkus
Aug 29, 2016

Easy to access, widely used, and outside of enterprise control, social media sites are gold mines for malicious actors. People share a lot of seemingly innocuous information, which is exactly the kind of data that hackers love to collect and use in phishing or spear phishing campaigns.

A recent NopSec 2016 State of Vulnerability Risk Management Report found that organizations use inadequate risk evaluation scoring systems. The report claimed that social media -- which often isn't included in any risk evaluation system -- is now a top platform for cybersecurity.

So, what's the correlation between social media and the rise in malware?

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