But cross-site scripting, a bug that allows a user tobetricked into clicking on a maliciously-crafted URL that causes a site to run a potentially dangerous script in their browser, still affects more than half of sites it tested.
If the Facebook folks had been rubbing their hands and laughing about how all their users were going tobetricked into making their profiles more accessible, their CEO probably would have been in on it, and would not have stumbled into less private settings himself.
He warned people tobe very wary, adding that some hacktivists keen to support the work of Anonymous had been tricked earlier in the year into installing a booby-trapped attack tool.
Derbyshire Police launched an investigation in 2009 after several Derby landlords reported that a man had tricked them out of money by pretending tobe Danny Kay.
The bad guys are increasingly using social media to try to find a way in, either by gathering intelligence or by befriending employees who may betricked into opening an e-mail with nasty code within.