Facebook and Twitter Expected To Be Under Attack In 2010
Facebook and Twitter the most favorite social networking websites of the world have been reported to be under attack by the cyber-criminals in 2010.
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This report has actually been released by McAfee labs on Tuesday which has alarmed many applications to be under great threat of cybercrimes and the main were Adobe system products including Acrobat reader and flash, and on the Microsoft’s platform the security firm predicts that Google Chrome OS will give an easy access to the Malware writer to prey users. The company has anticipated that the New Year will also bring some more smarter and dangerous Trojans for the applications.
As reported by David Marcus, McAfee Labs’ director of security research and communications “an explosion of Facebook and other services targeted by cybercriminals is expected” and he further said that “A lot of the spammers and scammers will send fake Facebook application requests to users’ inboxes,” so the facebook users are needed to aware of such things.
The Twitter is also under threat same like facebook and according to McAfee Twitter is vulnerable mostly because of URL-shortening services like bit.ly and tinyurl.com and this is mainly because these applications send to unknown URLs that might be fake so a check and balance for this should be adopted. From these reports it is clear that all companies should bring advancement anti-viruses for their applications to prevent them from the cyber-crimes.
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