Top 8 Social Media Security Threats
By Michael Eggebrecht, Community Editor at CIOZone
As sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter have grown more popular, they have become a hot target for hackers. According to Kaspersky Lab, malicious code distributed via social networking sites is ten times more effective than malware spread via e-mail. Here are the Top 8:
New Worm Lets Hackers Take Control
By Kevin M. Nixon, Information-Security-Resources.com Security Editor
Social Networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, LiveJournal, etc.) are under attack by a variation of the Koobface worm which began to spread in August ‘08. This new variant, tracked as WORM_KOOBFACE.AZ has the potential of a fast infection rate. Most importantly, after propagating itself from the infected device, the Worm remains active on the user’s computer transmitting the computer’s data, settings, control information, and system information to over 300 international collection sites.
