It is understood that Adobe’s CTO acknowledged the recent marked increase in attacks against Adobe and said that he would focus on improving software security. Adobe contains multiple functional components, including the Reader and Flash Player which is found to be flawed up to two components.
Typically, the Microsoft family of products has been the main target of hackers due to high market share. But with the release of the new operating system, Windows 7, Microsoft’s security products has increased in a short time, hackers had to prey on other products.
Moreover, McAfee experts also predict hot popularity of social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook plug-in feature provides the convenience for the hackers. May occur in the future in particular the attacks against the social networking Web site, the user should pay attention to the protection of private information.
In addition, Html5 standard as support for video playback and connectivity features local database, but also becoming a hotbed for breeding holes. The most typical example is the use of the standard ChromeOS operating Html5.
Fortunately, due to the gradual improvement of relevant laws and regulations, companies increasingly close cooperation between, leaving space for hackers have been constantly getting smaller, the overall safety of the trend forward.
According to foreign media reports, according to security company McAfee in the “Forecast 2010, a threat,” the report said, in 2010, criminals will shift their focus from Microsoft to the Adobe Systems companies. Adobe will replace Microsoft’s Internet criminals to become the first target of attack.
The report said that due to popular Microsoft products, Internet criminals have consistently chosen Microsoft’s product. In 2010, we expect to Adobe software, especially Acrobat Reader and Flash, will be the main target.
Cisco’s another one in a recent report that, with the popularity of social networking, Internet criminals have to look staring at Facebook and Twitter and other social networking sites. Mcafee reports that this trend will continue in 2010.
McAfee echo Cisco in its recently released report and warned that criminals who pretend they are trustworthy sites Facebook friends to deceive people into downloading malicious software, or cheat people’s passwords and other personal data. Malware authors prefer to track social networking activities, hot spots and hot talk. This trend will continue in 2010.
Banking Trojan program next year, it will also become increasingly sophisticated. They will be intercepted in the transaction processing banking transactions and it really takes away a user account money.
Advanced new technologies such as HTML 5 will also hackers and others who exploit the loopholes in online activities provide a new approach.
