Currently, updating the status or posting photos on social networking sites for most of us almost become a habit. Popularity of smartphones and mobile devices has made the sharing of information regarding the location, thoughts, and our experience instantly with friends and family so easy and a lot of Indonesian people like to use social networking.
However, many of us do not realize that when we update our social networking pages, we are actually giving the information needed by the criminals to perform attacks that are specific to us!
By looking at the information we are open, cyber criminals can learn our interests, gain our trust, and make us and / or our friends as a target in order to deceive. No more e-mail address is unknown, bad grammar, and links that look suspicious.
Internet Security Threat Report Volume 16 of Symantec's latest reveals the nature of the growing sophistication of attacks that use social networking sites. The cyber criminals are aware that there are a lot of data that can be harvested and they use any means to get confidential information.
However, not just social networks that used by cyber criminals to target consumers. With the proliferation of mobile devices, like your cyber criminals have also become very easy to move around. In 2010, Norton documented 163 vulnerabilities in mobile devices; up 42 percent from 2009.
Today, most threats to mobile devices are designed to appear as if a formal application. These applications uploaded to the mobile service application marketplaces where users unwittingly download and install it, thus opening the smartphone to the kinds of threats that for decades we have witnessed in the PC.
With more and more users download and install third party applications for mobile devices, the higher the likelihood he install rogue applications. In Indonesia there are over 200 million mobile customers, according to the Infocomm Indonesia Society (MASTEL).
With a malicious program designed to generate revenue now, we'll see more and more threats that are created for these devices; especially since more and more people use the devices for important transactions such as shopping and banking online.
The cyber criminals also can not stop using big events locally and around the world. Recent events that successfully exploited by cyber criminals include royal wedding Prince William and Kate Middleton, and the death of Osama Bin Laden.
Internet Security Threat Report Volume 16 also reveals that Indonesia ranks 11th in the world of the spread of malicious programs. This could bring dangerous effects - the report mentions that, on average, 260 thousand identity was revealed for each data leakage in 2010. Along with the development of cyber criminals, our identity will become increasingly cheaper price, we find that the credit card information online on the black market that are advertised only Rp950!
Unfortunately, the dangers of online continues to increase in number. Symantec detects new threats 286 million in 2010, which means nine new threats, every second in a day for a year
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