As a social network, Facebook has successfully enlisted about 200 million people all over the world as its users. Such popularity, combined with the user’s common lack-of-knowledge on the complex security issues surrounding their favorite social network, will no wonder act as a magnet for kinds of malware and financial scams.

The attacks varied into wide range of phishing, viruses (such as the famous and vicious ‘Koobface’), and attacks through social engineering techniques. The last one mentioned should be enough to remind us to be extra careful and constantly vigilant when we go on the web, because anti-viruses and other security devices won’t serve any good against a message tells us that a friend back from our high school times needed money for a severely swollen tumor on his brain.

Facebook said that less than 1 percent of its users have been victimized over the last five years, and it’s still doing their part to fight the problem. Before the number ‘one percent’ soften some amount of vigilance we perhaps just start to muster, lets put in our mind that such appear-to-be minuscule amount could actually represent up to 2 million people, shall we?