Tune up (or tear down) your social networks' app permissions<article>
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What’s the best way for a malicious party to gain access to broadcast at people you know? Is it through malware that invades your computer, rifles through your contacts list, and sends out email? Tut-tut, that’s
so 2009!</p><p>
Mac users have often been smug about contact spamming because even when limited instances of malware hit the wild, they don’t hijack our email accounts and tap our address books. iOS users have an even broader smirk about the same issue. On the Windows side, Microsoft’s early decision to integrate email and with the OS’s scripting engines made it too easy for spammers to take over and tell all your friends about the latest weight-loss supplement. Opening a message with a maliciously crafted anything would seemingly unleash a torrent of messages.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3038174/security/how-to-check-or-revoke-your-social-networks-app-permissions.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Tune up (or tear down) your social networks' app permissions
