After the last post I just found something realy interesting wich maintains my opinion about social networks.

The ranking was compiled by Stefan Tanase from Kaspersky Lab, at Webstock. It is made in 2009.

1. January 2009: massive spam campaign on LinkedIn. Pictures of naked celebrities, leading to malware
2. February 2009: first commercial tool to do spam on Twitter. Anyone impossible to follow so many more people on Twitter, and can give updates automatically
3. Aprile 2009: emergence of a worm on Twitter developed a couple of 17 years, who subsequently received a job in an IT company
4. April: Twitter hack the admin panel of a French-looking. A number of passwords of emails were obtained in this way
5. May 2009: a search tool for email addresses on Twitter and collecting them. Followed attacks in real-time personalized
6. June 2009: trending topics on Twitter have been handled. The most successful subjects are exploited for attacks viraliza
7. June 2009: first service was shortened URL broken
8. June 2009: Twitter account’s Guy Kawasaki was broken. 140 thousand people, trackbacks’s Kawasaki, could see a dangerous link
9. June 2009: emergence Koobface, a worm specifically designed for social networks. People are 10 times more likely to click on such a link than the one came via email
10. August 2009: Twitter bootnet attacked. It is suspected that the substrate was political: a political blogger in Georgia had silenced

How you can see Twitter is in the top with 7 of 10 attacks on their network. So why I should get a virtual life on a social network ? To have my informations hacked and after that to find out that my other accounts have been hacked too ? Really, I don’t want to.