Nepali Facebook users vulnerable to identity-theft
he increasing number of Facebook users in Nepal is a threat to cyber security, the Office of Certification and Controller said on Monday.
Certification Controller, Rajan Raj Pant, citing the number of Facebook users in Nepal to be almost 600,000, said that Facebook users are vulnerable to privacy & identity-theft, as hackers develop friendship with Internet users by the help of such social networking sites.
Pant informed that after developing online friendship, hackers make their way to email address reaching in direction of access to credit card and ATM card, among others. "This trend is very common in most of the countries and can be practiced in Nepal too," he said, adding that such behavior - called social engineering - has added trouble to internet users by providing personal information.
