Sixty per cent of businesses claimed that Facebook is a risk social networking site, as revealed by the security vendor, Sophos.
Meanwhile, a similar opinion was also expressed by Kaspersky Labs pointed Microblogging site Twitter, which was rising-a second networking site after Facebook risky.
Sophos did a survey of 502 IT professionals. The result, business was seeing a lot of malware and spam floating around the virtual realm.
The Sophos report titled “Security Threat Report: 2010″, mentions that as many as 33 percent of IT professionals to choose blocking Facebook for productivity reasons, while 21 percent of survey respondents reported that they or a network of friends who have received malware via social networking sites will lost control of the site access. As many as 72 percent of the company also believed that employees who often had a tendency for Facebook ria could endanger the company’s business.
Another horrendous thing to come from Twitter. Dmitry Bestuzhez (Senior Regional Researcger Kaspersky Labs), reveals that Twitter has been offered for U.S. $ 1000 by a hacker forum. “Tweet can contain URLs. Well, most of the users trust to click the link in the tweet. This is certainly a trap for many people to act criminal. The more follower, the more the risk of malware infection, “explained Bestuzhez. This is where the danger. Sendible facility could be misused in the spread of malware. The reason is assumed Twitter can be used to infect other malware to your account.
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Beware, Trap at Facebook and Twitter
Thursday, February 4th, 2010Threats at Facebook,Twitter and iPhone
Monday, January 25th, 2010
In the year 2010, the security threat for users of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter estimated more frenzied. , Security vendor McAfee spoke. “In 2009 we saw an increase in attacks on web sites that web users use ,” explained one of his spokesmen.
“The number of Facebook users who reach 350 million to make us believe that the year 2010 will carry a security case that the trend is increasing,” the spokesman said. “Writer malware likes and pleased to join the social networking sites, even the activities to its hot spots will continue in the year 2010,” he explained.
Restrictions on Twitter system which only 140 make the user rely service URL shortcut, like bit.ly, tinyurl.com. This step is then used by the attacker as a ruse for the user.
“This trick will play a more dominant role in 2010. With this trick, they can direct users to a malicious link that is disguised” according to a report written by Dmitri Alperovitch, Toralv Dirro, Paula Greve , Rahul Kashyap, David Marcus, Sam Masiello, Franois Paget, and Craig Schmugar of McAfee Labs.
The success of Apple’s iPhone is also a part of diversity trigger the application. The latest facts, Facebook already offers more than 350,000 active and Apple applications App Store recently reached 100,000 target. As a result, many users blindly distribute the application. Extensive land also facilitate identity theft. User expectations will increase 2.0 Web services also triggered many false services that are hidden is set to steal data
Twitter Weak Point
Sunday, January 24th, 2010
Frequent attacks that led to more experienced Twitter Microblogging sites to the middle of this rise. According to security analysts of Foreground Security, a simple configuration to be room for an intruder to take control of the user account control.
Mike Baily, a senior analyst always Foreground Security, a Twitter error lies in the Adobe Flash object on the site. Saying that the Adobe Flash object can load the virtual file freely in any site on the internet. The site in question is who has the JavaScript code and Action Script.
Bailey also added that it is not Adobe’s fault. This is a proof of how bad programmers who create Flash object coding. Bailey was also able to exploit weaknesses in the Flash object to display the tweet into account only through an XML file on one server.
Not only that, other actions may also be a result of these weaknesses. Or removal Penambahakn follower account and read the messages that were declared to be private. Baily revealed, the length of an object configuration takes about 1 hour or more. Twitter currently has piha disable Flash object configuration errors
Twitter has been hacked
Monday, December 21st, 2009
Microblogging sites, Twitter has been hacked again. This time the hackers make a link to a fake page. This story was revealed after the weekend two weeks ago there were directions to the fake Twitter page. Reporting from CNN, the site pages contains a picture of green-flag with the inscription that reads “This site has been by Iranian Cyber Army”. However, there is no evidence links Iran to the site.
Meanwhile, a group who called themselves “Iranian Cyber Army” daring to claim responsibility for this case. Twitter did not escape from cyber attacks such as hacking. The reason, Twitter and Facebook does have a big hand in the Iranian opposition during the presidential election in June. This is evident from the update amateur video posted per minute.
To address these problems, Twitter also says that the Domain Name System (DNS) has been disrupted and hers for a while still under repair.
Facebook Make An Automatic Update Tools to Twitter
Sunday, December 20th, 2009
Facebook and rival social networking sites, Twitter has been working together to make a new step to help users to share information. Facebook is the top social networking sites, this week began testing a new feature designed to help post the status of the network and also automatically appear on Twitter. This was conveyed by Malorie Lucich, a spokesman for Facebook, which has been confirmed, Wednesday (16/12), although he did not say when this feature will be officially launched.
This improvisation can help users share information after the Facebook privacy settings to change the site. Facebook and Twitter movement is then still lead to pro cons for the lawyers who ultimately critical of Facebook, because most of them have the status of ‘unfriend’ on Facebook.
Facebook’s privacy settings have been incorporating new privacy options and make it a group in a single interface. Facebook users can now build a privacy setting for each item they post on the site, by using the drop down menu.
