"We have seen significant progress in the device and the adoption of the social network, putting an eye of bulls on the platforms and services users are taking the most," said Vincent Weafer, Vice President, McAfee Labs senior in a statement. "These platforms and services have become very popular in a short period of time, and we are already seeing a significant increase in vulnerabilities, attacks and data loss."
McAfee shall have to work especially hard to defend the most sophisticated malware will be intended for Apple in 2011. Until now, the Apple Mac OS platform has been decently secure, said McAfee. IPhone and iPad are growing increasingly popular in the area of business though, and McAfee are afraid that with the general lack of knowledge about how to protect these devices Apple Apple botnets and Trojans may be frequent and become a serious problem.
The most important thing that people need to be careful in really is social networking sites. McAfee says that they can easily fall prey to sites such as Facebook and Twitter problems such as shortening URL parsing. Went on to say that they knew that using shortcut links easier to condense their 140 character limit tweets, but sometimes these links are an easy way for criminals mask and direct users to malicious Web sites. Every minute there are more than 3,000 tiny URL addresses created. Due to these astronomical figures, McAfee said that they expect to see an increasing number of URLs that will be used for the spam, scams, and other malicious purposes.
While a recent study showed that only 4 percent of adults really use location-based services, companies continue to release characteristics based on the location, including quadrangular, Google Latitude, Facebook and more places. McAfee warns that the information being shared on sites like these easily could allow that cyber criminals develop attack target. Also predicted that in 2011 there will be an increase in the use of this type of tactic on the most popular social networking sites.
Many of these people use location-based services are used through their mobile phones. Due to this, McAfee also predicts a "rapid escalation" in the number of mobile attacks due to "the widespread adoption of mobile devices business, combined with historically fragile cellular infrastructure and slow progress towards encryption environments".
McAfee also said that the increase in the use of Internet TV connections could pose a serious security risk. If manufacturers only rush to launch products, could run on some major issues with malicious and suspicious applications on platforms as a Google TV device. "Will focus on these applications or expose data privacy and identity and allow Cyber criminals manipulate a variety of physical devices for applications committed or controlled, eventually increase the effectiveness of botnets," said McAfee.
These were not the only things that had McAfee threat released list. The list also included:
Hacktivismo: McAfee is predicting that there will undoubtedly be an increase in the number of cyber attacks possibly politically motivated. "More groups repeating WikiLeaks, example" said McAfee. Went on to say that differs from the WikiLeaks, however, the strategy much more sophisticated and leverage social networks.
Friendly Fire: McAfee is saying that there will also be an increase in the use of malicious content that is disguised as an e-mail message from a source that you know. There is "signed" malware that works to mimic legitimate files that McAfee has fear will be much more frequent. They also said that "friendly fire", which is a threat that appears to come from friends, but is actually a virus Koobface or VBMania, will become a much more prevalent by cybercriminals option. McAfee also said that these attacks go hand in hand with social network attacks, and that these social network attacks could quite possibly finally overcome attacks via e-mail.
The Botnets: McAfee Labs predicts that the merger of Zeus and SpyEye to be more sophisticated robots will occur due to advances to bypass security and law enforcement surveillance mechanisms. McAfee Labs also said that they expect to see an increase in the activity of botnet that begins to take data collection and data instead of the more common use of sending spam removal functionality.
Well, something that certainly can take 2011 McAfee threat list is definitely there are threats that users want to avoid. Security is an important topic that many people tend to avoid, including me. Protection and caution is necessary and is something that really need to pay more attention to people.
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