More Facebooking, More Malware

By Avanti Kumar, MIS Asia Nov 22, 2009

Security solutions firm F-Secure Malaysia says greater vigilance is needed as the use of social networking is gathering pace compared to e-mail. F-Secure Malaysia senior security response manager, Chia Wing Fei, said the company noted the significant shift from e-mail to instant communication channels provided by social networking sites. "This trend has important security implications as this means greater vigilance is required against links and messages sent from hacked accounts." "According to statistics from research firm Nielsen, the number of users on social networking and other community sites increased by 31 per cent in the period August 2008 -- August 2009, while e-mail use increased by 21 per cent," said Chia. "It may be too early to pronounce that e-mail is dead but the figures do highlight a growing trend." "Cyber criminals have already responded to the changing patterns of communication by focusing more activity on popular social networks," he said.

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