13:52 Experts mcafee identified the main goals of hackers in 2011 | |
| According to experts on network security company McAfee, in 2011 hackers will pay maximum attention to mobile devices, sokraschatelyam URL, geolocation services such as Foursquare, plus the products Apple, which for the time hackers almost never touched. "Social services, mobile web applications become more popular, which makes them very attractive to hackers," - says Vincent Weafer, vice president of McAfee Labs. In principle, the prediction of experts from McAfee is quite logical - of Internet services, mobile software, Soup themselves are becoming better and smarter, gathering functional. Members of all, it also becomes more and more, and attackers can not simply pay no attention to such a wide field of activities. Same sokraschateli URL - who would have thought that they might be interested in intruders? However, today it is one of the most popular tools for criminals. According to the same experts, social networks will remain hot "theme" of network intruders, but there are new objects, such as geolocation services and Foursquare Facebook Places. Aware that such services are of interest not only hackers, but it thieves and banal - the cases of when a thief suit internet spy on users, who, without any fear puts their coordinates in sharing, communicating in the same Twitter. Then, making sure that the landlord or office far away, a thief quietly doing his own thing and just quietly dropped. Some of them even left a message with gratitude at the same Twitter. Gadgets such as smart phones, communicators, Internet TV platform, the device from Apple are also very attractive target for hackers. The latter, according to experts on network security, has already achieved considerable success and it will be especially noticeable in 2011. By the way, this could be the last forecast McAfee as an independent company - recently Antimonopolschiki U.S. have approved the transaction on the acquisition of the company by Intel. Via CNET | |
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