security breach

Recent accusations of data mishandling have been causing Facebook serious problems, regarding the Cambridge Analytica scandals and the 2016 Presidential Elections of the United States. Facebook has been accused of leaking its users’ data to third parties and the company has to answer some serious allegations about that.

In our latest articles we broadened out topics by introducing some of the most burning issues that are concerning online media about safety and security on social media, and this time we would like to add our own thoughts of the Facebook link to Cambridge Analytica scandal so far.

In our last article, we started summarising the most common and most dangerous insider threats for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We wrote about angry employees with privileged system access to the company networks, colleagues who surf on the internet and download unwanted spying programmes, viruses or other malware, and co-workers who break the law by doing illegal activity on company property.

Criminal attacks might happen to a company from outside sources, or from the inside. Most of the time employees pose a great risk and raise the likelihood of a cyber-attack by their daily routines. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are especially vulnerable to these IT security breaches, as they may lack sophisticated methods and monitoring systems used by large corporates.  Also in some cases, they may lack the understanding of nature of incoming threats.