Latest target of money-minded hackers is social networking sites
Today one of the most serious problems faced by social networking sites is attacks by cyber criminals. Hackers choose social networking sites as they can collect personal identity and sales details of millions of people through social networks. They can misuse the collected data to loot people’s money. Not just money, the hi-tech thieves can take advantage of this and steal valuable data from members, using malware.
Some online mischief-makers can send worms as an ideal vector on site. For instance, if several employees of a given company have records on a social networking site that mention their company’s name, an attacker could send a worm like XSS (enables pickpockets to get the best news and information about people) to hunt down their account details.
The recent attack on social networking sites is the appearance of poisoned banner ads. It was a new type of attack, where if anyone clicks on one such ad, the adware automatically gets downloaded on their desktop and freezes their PC, according to iDefence, a research and security company. Anyway, the issue was fixed after a long time but the attack still found plenty of victims in a huge number of networking sites.
Recently, social networking giant Facebook has been targeted by hackers looking to steal users’ valuable information. It has been hit by five separate security problems in the last seven days, says a security expert.
Facebook had been attacked by four malicious applications along with a new variant of the Koobface virus. These rogue applications try to rob saleable data from profiles of those who open the link.
Every bad experience teaches us to discover a new way to solve the problems. Let us hope, that they will find a perfect way to resolve the security problems arising every hour on the net.
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