McAfee experts have identified the main goals of hackers in 2011
According to McAfee network security experts, in 2011, hackers will pay maximum attention to mobile devices, URL shorteners, geolocation services like Foursquare, plus Apple products, which for the time being hackers barely touched. “Social services, mobile web applications are becoming increasingly popular, which makes them very attractive in the eyes of hackers,” says Vincent Wyfer, vice president of McAfee Labs.
In principle, the prediction of experts from McAfee is quite logical - Internet services, mobile software, the devices themselves are becoming more perfect and “smarter”, acquiring functionality. Users of all this is becoming more and more, and hackers simply can not pay attention to such a wide field of activity. The same URL shorteners - who would have thought that they might be intriguing? However, today it is one of the most popular tools among attackers.
According to the same experts, social networks will remain a hot “topic” for network intruders, but new facilities will also appear, such as geolocation services Foursquare and Facebook Places. It is known that such services are of interest not only to hackers, but also to trivial thieves - there have been frequent cases when a thief arranges Internet surveillance of a user who, without any fear, puts his / her coordinates into the public domain, communicating on Twitter. Then, making sure that the owner of the apartment or office is far away, the thief calmly does his job and just as calmly retires. Some even leave a message with gratitude in the same Twitter.
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Gadgets such as smartphones, communicators, Internet TV platforms, Apple devices are also a very attractive target for hackers. The latter, according to experts on network security, have already achieved significant success, and this will become especially noticeable in 2011.
By the way, this forecast may be the latest McAfee forecast as an independent company - recently the US anti-monopoly authorities approved a deal to take over this company by Intel.
Via CNET
In principle, the prediction of experts from McAfee is quite logical - Internet services, mobile software, the devices themselves are becoming more perfect and “smarter”, acquiring functionality. Users of all this is becoming more and more, and hackers simply can not pay attention to such a wide field of activity. The same URL shorteners - who would have thought that they might be intriguing? However, today it is one of the most popular tools among attackers.
According to the same experts, social networks will remain a hot “topic” for network intruders, but new facilities will also appear, such as geolocation services Foursquare and Facebook Places. It is known that such services are of interest not only to hackers, but also to trivial thieves - there have been frequent cases when a thief arranges Internet surveillance of a user who, without any fear, puts his / her coordinates into the public domain, communicating on Twitter. Then, making sure that the owner of the apartment or office is far away, the thief calmly does his job and just as calmly retires. Some even leave a message with gratitude in the same Twitter.
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Gadgets such as smartphones, communicators, Internet TV platforms, Apple devices are also a very attractive target for hackers. The latter, according to experts on network security, have already achieved significant success, and this will become especially noticeable in 2011.
By the way, this forecast may be the latest McAfee forecast as an independent company - recently the US anti-monopoly authorities approved a deal to take over this company by Intel.
Via CNET
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/110871/
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