You heard it hear first: 2009 is going to be known as the “Year of the Social Networking Scam.”
As more people publish details about themselves on social networking sites, these details are going to be used to generate ever more sophisticated socially engineered phishing attacks. Driven by the difficult economy and increasing unemployment Internet based crime will increase. Individuals and business will seek better tools to protect their respective on-line identities from theft, forgery, and impersonation.