Facebook users open to cyberattacks, ID theft?

As Facebook evolves from a university social network into an enterprise tool, VeriSign iDefense security experts are warning that the platform is turning into a prime attack vector for cybercriminals.

Ryan Olson, a United States-based analyst for VeriSign's iDefense operations against the proliferation of malicious code, said that while thousands of applications being developed by third parties for Facebook users are enriching the social network's functionality, the Facebook Platform provides a perfect channel for distributing malicious software.

"The potential is there, and the framework is there," Olson said.

"Rather than putting it in our terms of service that you promise not to breach our security and putting the onus on us, we are just going to open it up slowly over time," Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said in June.

"You use such developer applications at your own risk," Facebook states on its privacy statement. - -- more