From BusinessWeek:
Social networking sites offer hackers a rich trove of potential victims and many opportunities to exploit them, a new security report says
Your next MySpace friend could be a virus. Social networking sites, blogs, and other popular Web destinations that rely on user-generated content are hackers’ newest targets, according to a Symantec report. And these bad guys are not targeting social networking sites just to show off—they’re hunting for sensitive financial information.