Year 2011: Facebook and Devices Mobile increasingly Threatened

JAKARTA, FRIDAY-Coming to the end of the year, the amount of spam reported decreases. But what about the IT security situation next year? Is the threat to social networks like Facebook will subside?

Apparently not. Analysis of CTAC instead pointed to an increasing attack next year. Not just for Facebook, but also other social networks like LinkedIn, Orkut and Twitter, as well as search engines such as Bing and Yahoo. Hmm, CTAC (Cyber Threat Analysis Center) is an agency in San Diego that analyzes the threat of cyberspace, which is part of a new research body formed by ESET. However, CTAC also said the danger is on Facebook still disguised.

Enticement to click on certain links that spread in an e-mail, malicious URLs, community forums and newsgroups is not going to stop. The attack in the form of SCADA data theft still exists, through the spear-phishing and malware social networking or even 0-days, and Trojans continues.

"With increasingly active social network users in Indonesia, it is expected that each user has the awareness to protect your account and computer respectively. Most social networking sites provide data protection responsibilities to the owner of the account. For computer security, ESET has anticipated through its ability to detect malware from third party programs on social networking. To the people of Indonesia, Indonesia also offers a blog ESET ESET Indonesia as a means of public education, "said Yudhi Stearns (Security Consultant, PT Prosperita-ESET Indonesia).

Moreover, IT security predictions CTAC? Namely, the rise of attacks on mobile devices. Certain brands that install security applications it will be increasingly vulnerable to malware attacks. In addition, the attacks from false social networking is not going to stop.

Hey good news, no new botnet next year. However, long botnets will continue to rise. Analysts predict botnets will remain a major problem. They also warn that there will be more malware based on Java that works on multiple platforms. This example is similar Boonana Koobface, and zombie botnets that use and work on Windows and non-Windows OS.