Social networking sites – people point of attack for cyber criminals

Sean Wain, country manager for security firm Check Point, said social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, is a very powerful attack vector for hackers, according to a statement published by ITWeb. co. za den 30 June 2010. Wain said that these areas is a major exhibition, together with a fast and productive distribution of information between users. Thus, it becomes easy for hackers to spread malicious links and launch several phishing attacks. Malware spread through social networking sites are relatively more likely to hit targets that are sent by e-mail, “said Wain. Given that Facebook has an average of 130 connections per user and have 126 followers on Twitter users, social networking sites really are a large group of potential victims and the attack rate rather decent hackers. Another security company Sophos ASEAN Regional Sales Manager, with support Clarence Phua Wain analysis. He said that cyber criminals are increasingly targeting social networking sites to conduct criminal activities, according to a news published by Computerworld. co. New Zealand in the last week of May 2010. hack accounts on social networks are computers that controlled botnets. This makes them valuable accounts to hackers because they can be used to spread malware, send spam and steal users’ identities, “said Phua. Phua said that 36% of social network users have acknowledged that they have experienced malware attacks via social networking profiles, up 69th 8% from 2009 levels. Due to the rising prevalence of use of social networking sites, crime Phua suggested to re-evaluate their internal policies for social media, along with other Web 2nd 0 settings. He said that when it is impossible to limit heads full of employees from accessing social networking sites, which can definitely mean some control. A number of security companies, including BitDefender and Sophos, said earlier this year to media social networks, it is estimated that a highly critical attack vector in 2010. Now, with the figures published by Phua is a prediction comes out to be true.