The threat of online security

Web-based services, such as social networks MySpace and Facebook, are becoming major targets for hackers to seeking your personal information. Due to our personal information have display many on social networking web sites and office workers upload more sensitive data to online software programs, the hackers have this opportunity to steal our data.

I have been read news from online that there is a case, the names and contact information for tens of thousands of customers of two were stolen from a web sites called Salesforce.com, which provides online customer management software for those two companies. The incident occurred after a hacker tricked a Salesforce employee into disclosing a password. The attack on consumer sites is getting more unsecured on our privacy.

It may be harder to prevent attacks that exploit the Web-based lists of friends and business contacts that users save in widely used services and social networks. Now there are new hacking strategies that the users are unable to detect them and also approach to maximize damage without being caught. These include division of labor by hacking expertise and wider use of black-market sites to hire programmers and purchase professional malware-writing tools.

For consumers, it is not just their profiles on social networks that can be mined for personal information. Smartphones and e-mail applications that are store more valuable data, could present tempting targets. In the corporate world, criminals are hunting for more of the valuable information stored on companies' servers. For example, hackers access to credit- and debit-card of the retailer's customer according to court documents filed by Visa and MasterCard.

Therefore, do not give away any valuable or sensitive personal information on social network or within messages to other members of the network. And do not click on any links in social network messages from people you did not know. Actually there is no reputable company will ask for your password, account number, or other log-in information via e-mail or instant message. Thus, any situation like this, you should be aware.