2010 threats in Facebook increasingly violent

Year 2010 will be the year in which a security threat to users of social networking and media sites like Facebook and Twitter increasing. IPhone application users also become one of the greatest sights of information and data theft by phishing Internet. With the achievement of Facebook users more than 350 million, we estimate in the year 2010 this trend will only get bigger," McAfee said in a report Threats Predicted in 2010. Malware makers really like to follow the development of social networking. This will continue in the year 2010, "McAfee said.

The report reminded the Google and other service providers will attack the search engines. Twitter and other social networking sites would occur escalation. Twitter is one of the largest providers under attack by potential using bit.ly URLs or tinyurl.com. Tricks like this would still dominant in 2010, because the user thought it was a normal thing," said the report written by Dmitri Alperovitch, Toralv Dirro, Paula Greve, Rahul Kashyap, David Marcus, Sam Masiello, Franois Paget, and Craig Schmugar of McAfee Labs.

Along with the development of Web 2.0 services, we would expect more of the hidden agenda of activities to take the information and data," said McAfee. Apple's successful iPhone phenomenon is also largely controlled by a variety of applications in it. But on the Apple applications store that recently reached 100 thousand is one gap that can be exploited by hackers or data thieves.