Be careful save important data in social sites

Do you remember when I loss of data on the most popular social networking sites, Friendster, a few weeks ago? The loss of important data is cause of hackers or other cyber Crime.

A number of IT experts in the Kaspersky Lab, Russia, as Denis Maslennikov and Alex Gostev found Compass admitted to hear the loss of data members of Friendster, but they believe it can happen because of a technical error in its own Friendster.

“The social sites become targets of cyber crime perpetrators. We (Kaspersky Lab) long and now manages continue to develop and improve the secure of them. What can I say on the social site users, do not put the data on the site is important,” said Alex Gostev.

Important data that should not be listed among other mobile phone number, bank account numbers, or other important data such as identity card numbers. Crime cyber perpetrators can operate the social site to begin with a simple way, namely, steal passwords of users. After that the hacker usually disrupts the perpetrators of user data.

“Just destroy the trust of each other and even destroy their friendship,” said Gostev.

Sergei Golovanov, a senior analyst Kaspersky Lab malware found separately disclose, the social sites member by 2008 this reached one billion people, in line with the development of the Web 2.0 a more interactive, will become targets of cyber Crime global actors. Even in 1996, while still using Web 1.0, still about 45 million people. “Be careful when storing important data on the social site” said Golovanov.

In addition, Golovanov, the perpetrators of cyber now begin to enter the malware almost all of the social sites, including Facebook, where the perpetrator force users to open the site invisible are desired by actors pop up.