Digital Trends - There was once a time when spam emails were our biggest worry. No longer, says Sophos. In its annual Security Threat Report, the IT security firm found that 67 percent of those using social sites like Facebook and Twitter have been spammed at least once in 2010. Worse, Â 40 percent of social users were sent malware in 2010, nearly double what it was in the summer of 2009.
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