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Social network searches could be a hacker's dream
- From: Brian Warkoczeski
- Date: Tue Dec 15 09:35:48 2009
Social network searches could be a hacker's dream
Dec. 14, 2009
By Byron Acohido, USA TODAY
The race to include up-to-the-minute postings from popular social
networks atop search results from Google, Microsoft Bing and Yahoo
Search should trigger a boon — for spammers and cybercriminals.
That's the consensus of search and tech security experts following
Google's announcement that it has now matched Microsoft's and Yahoo's
recent moves to integrate Twitter micro-blog entries prominently in
search results. The Big Three search services are also moving to
incorporate Facebook postings into search results in near real-time.
Meanwhile, spammers and hackers are out in force. Spam accounts for 88%
of all e-mails, and the number of newly compromised websites detected
and blocked by Symantec's MessageLabs division averaged 2,465 per day
this year, up nearly 8% from 2,290 in 2008.
For the rest of the article, please see:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2009-12-14-searchsecurity14_ST_N.htm
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