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Where’s the Party? Hackers Found in Social Networking Sites

Engage with a social networking site such as MySpace or Facebook, and you will undoubtedly change the way you spend your time online. Every time you visit and interact, you will leave a trace behind.  You will expand your digital footprint. As you do this, you will acquire an online identity.Your digital profile will be born.

However unassuming or grand your digital profile is, however private or public, you can be certain of one thing:  Your nuggets of information can be turned against you by hackers with malicious motives.

The tables have turned.  2006 was the year that cyber criminals shifted their attention from e-mail to web traffic.  In that year, the ScanSafe Annual Global Threat Report noted an increase in spyware of 254 percent.  The motives shifted as well.  Over 65 percent of web virus attacks in 2006 aimed at gaining a financial benefit from unsuspecting users.  Displaying technical prowess or causing online chaos was no longer the main driving factor for attacks.

It is little wonder that social networking sites, with attention grabbing headlines that by turns praise and condemn the social changes they are helping bring about, are gaining the attention of hackers looking to spread their malware.

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Written by bardissi on October 4th, 2007 with no comments.
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How MySpace Is Hurting Your Network

Social-networking sites are using up such huge amounts of bandwidth that ISPs, universities, and businesses struggle to keep pace.

Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World

Increasingly popular social-networking sites such as MySpace, YouTube and Facebook are accounting for such huge volumes of DNS queries and bandwidth consumption that carriers, universities and corporations are scrambling to keep pace.

The trend is prompting some network operators to upgrade their DNS systems, while others are blocking the sites altogether. Moreover, the “MySpace Effect” is expected to hit many more nets soon, as these network-intensive interactive features migrate from specialty sites to mainstream e-commerce operations and intranets.

“Social media is not just going to be in pure-play sites like MySpace and Facebook. It’s going to become increasingly prevalent across retailers, media and entertainment,” says Mike Afergan, CTO of Akamai, a content delivery network company that supports MySpace, Facebook and Friendster. “It drives a lot more requests and a lot more bit-traffic across these networks.”

The demanding nature of social-networking sites was highlighted in May when the Department of Defense announced it was blocking worldwide access to 13 Web sites, including MySpace and YouTube.

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Written by HotShot on June 23rd, 2007 with no comments.
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Where Did Web 2.0 Go?


Apparently web 2.0 has already hit and we are basking in its sunlight. Whilst this may be true, it feels more like a mild day and a few clouds have cleared. To be honest I think Web 2.0 received much more hype and attention than it ought to have. Don’t get me wrong, when I believe it has truly arrived I will be out on the deck chair basking in it I just don’t think we have quite gotten there yet. It’s hard to know whether some web adaptations have come about because of this web 2.0 or because of natural web evolution. After all, isn’t web 2.0 just that?

In terms of mainstream usage which affects practically everybody on the internet, I really don’t recall seeing that much come out of Web 2.0 other than RSS and different usages of tagging; seen in services like flickr, social bookmarking and media services like digg, del.icio.us etc. Then you have mybloglog, myspaces and other social network sites. These are all fantastic, I love and use all of these any many more. But, is that really it?

Tagging

Tagging has undoubtedly changed the way

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Written by Joshua Hayes on February 11th, 2007 with no comments.
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