Year 2010 Virus Could Spread On Facebook and Twitter

11 January 2010 No Comment

Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter expected to be more vulnerable to attack cyber criminals or hackers in 2010.

Prediction is expressed by McAfee Labs. In addition to social networking sites, users Adobe Flash System and any risk of becoming a hacker target.

Director of Security Research and Communication McAfee Labs David Marcus says, the perpetrators of crime is likely to attack to Facebook and Twitter and other social networking services.

Not only Koobface viruses, virus attacks through Facebook applications will increase.

“When you click ‘yes’ to access an application, you provide access to applications that are clickable to see all the data your Facebook account,” Marcus said as quoted by CNet, Wednesday (30/12/2009).

Meanwhile, vulnerability against hackers Twitter more often caused by services such as peringkas bit.ly URL and tinyurl.com.

“There is nothing wrong with the Twitter service. But when you click a URL peringkas, you do not know what the target site until you actually had kliknya. Even today, there is no peringkas The URL to provide security for the targeted sites,” Marcus said.

Not only social networking site, Operating System (OS) Google Chrome will create new land for the creators of the virus to infect computer users. Thus, most likely Google Chrome will accompany the Microsoft OS that has been vulnerable to attack claimed. McAfee Labs also reminded that the appearance of a Trojan virus is more intelligent and dangerous

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