Social networks like Facebook, Twitter may face more sophisticated attacks in 2010
McAfee warned that Social networks will face increasingly sophisticated hacker attacks in 2010. McAfee said, “The explosion of applications on Facebook and other services will be an ideal vector for cybercriminals, who will take advantage of friends trusting friends to click links they might otherwise treat cautiously,”
In its 2010 Threat Predictions report, McAfee expected that hackers were expected to try to take advantage of the proliferation of URL shortening services such as bit.ly and tinyurl.com. It has also expected to see increased threats to banking security, Adobe products (especially Acrobat Reader and Flash), Chrome computer operating system by Google, and Microsoft Office applications and email remained vulnerable for its increasing popularity among individual users, corporations, and government institutions. However, the Santa Clara, California, computer security firm said that they are expecting to see an increase in the effectiveness of law enforcement to fight back against cybercrime in 2010.
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