Facebook, Place for Cyber Crimes

During this time the rate Facebook is the media in a safe on the internet. But Facebook is a fertile field for cyber criminals to find victims. Four thousand variants Koobface virus infection is also ready to victims, if not careful.

Two years ago, MySpace social networking site owned by News Corp. is the most popular place for cyber criminals to fish victims. Security experts have suspected that Facebook users increased dramatically from 120 million in December 2008, to more than 200 million at the time this will attract criminals.

"Facebook is currently a trend. Criminals go where people go. Always so," said Mary Landesman, senior researcher in the web security company ScanSafe.

Crime cybercrime has caused losses for companies and individuals to billions of dollars. Facebook is popular, will be missed not only by the cyber criminals, and make it as a field for the spread mengeksplotasi victims of fraud and not guilty.

Criminals find victims with the specific account, through a variety of ways so that the user was not aware of the password. Through the account, the criminals then post a message to the withdrawal of friends known.

To get more victims, criminals send spam so that potential victims of the new site thief mengujungi personal information and the site of virus spreader.

Facebook handle the security of the office center in Palo Alto California. The company is working hard filtering out spam and malicious software that zero members.

Simon Axten Facebook spokesman said, although the number of users continues to increase, but the percentage of successful attacks that do not rise. During the last five years, the attack less than 1% of the total member.

As a comparison FBI data shows about 3% of U.S. households was robbed in 2005. "Security is the strength of the race, we continue to update the system and build a new system to overcome the new threats," said Axten.

Facebook has a system if criminal activity is detected, automatically find the same pattern and remove dangerous email. Facebook also reset the account password if occupied by the other party.

One of the most significant threat is Koobface. This virus can take over your PC just by clicking the victims email spam. Virus this year, MySpace has been warm, and the author is now a focus on pass it on Facebook.

McAfee security software to the second largest in the world says variants Koobface jumped fourfold into 4000 kinds of days ago. "Because Facebook closed system, so we have our advantages. Once we detect spam messages, we can delete all messages in the inbox on the entire site," said McAfee researcher Craig Schmugar.

Security problems in Facebook is not kidding. Site fbhive.com recently released on Facebook problems in which the personal information the user can be shown only with simple hacking techniques. After the announcement, Facebook soon improve.

Last week, Yale University students are also reminded to be careful when using Facebook. It was after a laptop terinfeski malware because access to Facebook.

Keep in mind that Facebook users should continue to be wary when using Facebook and are responsible for their own safety. "We try as best as possible so that Facebook safe, but we can not guarantee that," remember the Facebook terms and conditions which is most of the member did not pay attention.