Networking Sites Become Hacker Target
San Francisco – cyber criminals are now more incentive to take advantage of social networking target potential victims and the potential to attack them.
One of the internet security firm, Sophos said the company site two-way at this time to concentrate on efforts to increase the number of their users, but less stringent in protecting their users from cyber attacks.
In fact, social networking is not likely to provide a clear privacy guidelines, and easily accessible to prevent cyber attacks that aim them.
“We are concerned, the company that put the employee too much personal information through their social networking sites will risk becoming targets cyber attacks. Especially if they put data on the infrastructure companies and other sensitive data,” said one consultant Sophos, Graham Cluley, as quoted from Computer Weekly, Wednesday (22/7/2009).
A survey conducted by Sophos also indicated that more than a quarter of the company average attack soft targets to be spam, phishing, or malicious viruses that spread through networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace.
By. okezone.com
