Social Networks – The Highly Profiled Attack Surfaces

Assume that you have logged into a social network site from your PC casually and enjoying it. You get a luring message, which you can’t help yourselves from clicking on. That’s the end of your good working PC. Some virus enters your system and turns your computer into a zombie, sending all your crucial information to some hacker a hundreds of miles far away.

Hackers have found social networking sites as a great attack places to hack a good number of PCs on the network. Many people on these sites have no good knowledge of tricks played by hackers. This makes them more vulnerable towards falling prey towards different viruses on the internet.

Social networking sites are designed with a concept of getting as many users as possible. These kinds of sites always have more security flaws compared to other normal sites, thus making it easier for hackers to target.