Cybercrime Exploits Web 2.0 Opportunities
The avalanche of new services that are available via the Internet, along with a
world population that now more readily adopts these new services, also
contributes to the success of cybercrime. Areas that are especially vulnerable
to attack include:
- Internet-money and online banking - Ecommerce and banks
working diligently to enable online financial transactions fuel the
ongoing struggle to balance speed and convenience with appropriate
security.
- Data storage facilities and applications "in the clouds" - With
data and applications increasingly being located on remote external
servers, criminals can hijack the traffic to gain access to financial,
confidential, and proprietary information.
- Online games - Crimes include password theft and theft of virtual
property for resale at significant profit.
- Online stock-exchange agencies - This convenient and fast way to
respond to stock market fluctuations creates a very tempting target for
criminals because stock market data is a very liquid asset.
- Web 2.0 - Online social networking, blogs, forums, wikis, MySpace,
YouTube, Twitter - all rely on the easy downloading, publishing, and
other information-sharing techniques that make every participant
vulnerable to malware infections.
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