Social media is the latest tool in the arsenal of cyber criminals, with groups using social networking websites such as Twitter to “manipulate the masses” into thinking a certain way, according to Kaspersky Labs’ co-founder and chief executive, Eugene Kaspersky..............
It is very easy to manipulate people and if the wrong people have the right strategy, this will be a very serious issue for governments...........
Hacktivist group Anonymous casts a long shadow over Twitter with multiple accounts and chapters representing different countries publicising the group’s activities such as its protest against the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA).
Turning to cyber warfare, Kaspersky said that supervisory control and data acquistion (SCADA) attacks were more likely to happen in the future because so many critical networks, such as power grids, were connected to the internet............
Finally, Kaspersky discussed privacy--or the lack of it. “There is no privacy in this world. When you travel you pay with credit cards, [and] if you use cable TV, there is too much information collected about you. There is a huge risk because so much private information is collected from everyone. If the wrong person or the wrong organisation has access to that data, it is not only a problem for you but for governments..............”
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