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The biggest cyber security stories of 2010. Part 2

By Luciana on January 1, 2011 | Computer Security, 2010, 2010 in computer security, phishing, 2010 in phishing, vulnerabilities, 2010 in vulnerabilities, Facebook, Facebook fraud, Adobe, statistics The biggest cyber security stories of 2010. Part 2

Taking a look back at 2010 we can see many incidents in various security fields. And some of them stand up from the crowd. Spam, malware and basic security problems were already discussed in The biggest cyber security stories of 2010. Part 1 and now it’s time for some more conclusions.

Phishing
Facebook was the most loved playground by scammers. If you hadn’t stumbled upon some kind of “OMG the most scandalous video ever” fraud all the way through 2010, you can consider yourself to be lucky. The social network was full of fake fan pages that could only be viewed after a user gave permission to access and use their personal information. As if collecting personal data wasn’t bad enough, most of those pages led to external websites. To be fair, some of them were decent, but large part of those web sources served drive-by downloads or continued to phish information and money from gullible visitors.

The most famous Facebook frauds of the year were the “dislike” feature and the paid services rumor. Read the stories at ‘Dislike’ feature is another scam spreading on Facebook and Scammers running wild on Facebook .

Vulnerabilities
Adobe did their best at patching vulnerabilities of their products but it wasn’t good enough as the company was the big target. It seems that it is the never-ending battle since the more popular a product gets, the more it is worth exploiting its weaknesses (read the full story at Adobe Reader PDF patches the flaw disclosed at Black Hat ). The company also tripped a little bit by failing to patch up serious security issue on Adobe Reader (full story at Unauthorized patch for Adobe Reader flaw brings a temporary lullaby ). One of the biggest steps Adobe made in safety was the sandboxing technique added the Reader 10 (read the full story at Adobe Reader 10 comes with additional security ).

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