Your friends might be spying on your Facebook when you're not looking

Ever suspected your friends may be snooping on your Facebook profile behind your back? It turns out they are, a new study shows.

New research from the University of British Columbia in Canada says 24 percent — or more than one in five subjects — had accessed someone else’s Facebook account without permission, and 21 percent have been victims (that knew about the unauthorized access).

The security community calls this kind of profile snooping a "social insider attack." This means the attacker knows the victim and gains access to the account by physically accessing the victim’s device, whether it's a phone, tablet, laptop or something else. Read more...

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