Over a billion people visited social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter last month so it’s not surprising that hackers have these sites in their cross-hairs. The attacks come in many forms: spreading Trojan viruses including key loggers, phishing for passwords and sniffing out packets of sensitive information. In fact, according to recent research …
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Apr
22
10 security threats to watch out for in 2009
We’re well into the new year now, and we’re beginning to see trends emerging on the security front. Some of the threats we’ll see this year will be similar to those in years past (after all, many of the basic con games now being perpetuated online were around long before the advent of computers and …