The Hindu:
Sunday: April. 27, 2008
Front Page
Beware Net’s baddies
Special Correspondent
Bangalore: The so-called social networking sites on the Internet — Orkut,
MySpace, YouTube, etc, — where lay users share their likes, dislikes,
hobbies and habits with thousands of likeminded people, many of them
unknown, have a downside: the Net’s baddies now seem to have made such
sites the focus of their attacks, using techniques like phishing, a type
of email fraud which aims at stealing a person’s confidential
information,
even his total identity.
The latest Internet Security Threat Report, released by security
management specialist Symantec, holds out a special warning for
India-based fans of social networking on the Net, who number between 5
and
6 million and spend anything from 15 to 75 per cent of all spare time in
this activity. Such sites are easy to spoof, leading trusting lay users
to
share personal information with bogus operators, the report says. In
effect, cyber criminals have moved subtly from targeting your computers
with worms and viruses, to targeting YOU.
“Attackers look for the weakest link — and right now that is social
networking,” says Prabhat Singh, Symantec’s Director, Security Response
in
India.
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