Cyber Crimes eclipsed Non-Windows Systems

A recent report by the Cisco 2010 Annual Security Report released today highlights that cyber crime is now overshadowing the PC non-Windows operating system including smartphones, tablet PCs, and mobile.

Arthur Siahaan, Engineer Director, Cisco Systems Indonesia, said that if previous users feel safe using non-Windows operating system, now they should begin to be wary.

"Now is no longer safe. For the perpetrators of cyber crime, the increasing number of non-Windows users and mobile devices make it more interesting, "he said today.

According to him, the best way to deal with this new trend is the anticipation and always alert.

In this report, Cisco also mentioned that in 2010 for the first time in the history of the Internet occurs decrease the volume of spam, cyber criminals invest heavily in money muling the mode fraud by encouraging victims to transfer stolen money or goods from one country to another, individuals directly, courier or electronic and users continue to become victims of scams that exploit the abuse of trust.

In response to the exploitation of cyber crime is on the operating system during the last decade, the PC platform vendors and application vendors have strengthened the security of their products and have taken a more aggressive approach to rectify the shortcomings.

As a result, principals are increasingly difficult to exploit the platforms which had previously been their main target - especially the Windows platform - and start looking for another target to get the money. Changes to this trend occurs because the skyrocketing use of mobile applications and devices.
Mobile applications 3rd party began to emerge as a serious goal threat.

Cisco Annual Security Report also includes the award-winning Cisco 2010 Cybercrime Showcase and discuss the impact of social media, cloud computing, spam, and global cyber-crime activity against network security.

The money mule operation becomes more developed and international. Cisco security experts anticipate the money mule will be the main focus of investment from cyber crime in 2011.

Cisco based on its performance in the year 2010, making the matrix which predicts that a virus or Trojan data thieves like Zeus, easy to administer Web exploitation, and money mule will continue to rise sharply in 2011.

On the other hand, social networking fraud will not be a significant area for cyber criminals to invest their resources in 2011, although in the last year into a high ranking in the category of potential.

That does not mean that social networking fraud is reduced because they are only a small part of a larger plan that is launching attacks such as Trojan Zeus Web exploitation.

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