Facebook Will be a Target of Cyber Criminals in 2011

Facebook Will be a Target

Social networking media predicted would become the main target of attacks by cyber criminals. In fact, believed penyerbuannya frequency increases. 

According to the analysis of Cyber Threat Analysis Center (CTAC), media, social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Orkut and Twitter will remain the main target of such attacks in 2010. Similarly to search engines such as Bing and Yahoo. 

"The emergence of Facebook on the other hand also cause new problems, and the problem still would exist if the threat is limited in an effort to eradicate the symptoms by providing a menu of privacy in social media as desired by the user, so that data security remains the responsibility of the customer but not until the eradication of disease this, "said CTAC, in his statement.

Social media is still going to be one of the biggest problems, not only in the context of malware. 

Most of the malware will still be roaming and infect via the same path as email, malicious URLs, community forums, newsgroups by persuading potential victims to click on something. 

" could also very amazing vulnerability. LNK also increased from time to time, although it's been a long time because the vulnerability was discovered", he said.

He said. ESET security companies assess, in the form of data theft SCADA attack will still exist, but will likely use a spear-phishing and malware social networking or even 0-day, and the Trojans rather than replicating malware such as Win32/Stuxnet.

But unfortunately the main strength seems to have weakened despite Stuxnet Stuxnet code can also easily adaptable to attack all the installations that are not related, so that we can ensure that the use of malware for the purpose of sabotage remains speculative and remains an active investigation be done. I

n addition, scrapping tools on social networking sites such as commonly used to steal data, will reduce the burden for spear phishing attacks, which will lead to attacks against other strategic targets. 

With more active users of social networks in Indonesia, it is expected that every user has the awareness to protect and account for each computer.

"Most social networking sites provide data protection responsibility of the owner of an account for computer security. Eset been anticipated by its ability to detect malware from a third party on the social networking program. For the people of Indonesia, Indonesia also offers a blog ESET ESET Indonesia as a means of public education, "said Yudhi Stearns, Security Consultant, PT Prosperita-ESET Indonesia.