Internet Security Threat increased 11.5 percent

Threats to the security of Internet network in 2008 found 11.5 percent increase compared to the year 2007. This annual report based on the CISCO 2008. CISCO is a security company for the Internet network.

Analysis for the report is made in the period December 2007 to October 2008.

Identification of network security on the Internet such as spam (junk email), pishing, botnet, social engineering, and piracy is considered the most dangerous reputation.

From the reports that are included in the broadcast persnya in Jakarta, Thursday (5 / 3), post spam (junk email), there were nearly 200 billion posts each day. Email is the type of waste is not expected to email the owner of the account by email.

Email This waste usually contains a message that does not mean or ads that are less useful to the owner of the account. While the form of identity theft pishing someone tercatet only one percent of all attacks.

Estimated the attack carried out via email and short messages via mobile phone. "Form, if you start running applications with iming-iming money, when your ID is stolen," said Prio Utomo, System Engineering (Technology) CISCO.

Botnet (terdistribusi agencies to conduct attacks on the website), has become a central activity in Internet crime. In 2008, many sites infected with malicious code (Iframes), so deceive visitors to come to another similar site that has malware.

"There are two similar sites, but actually it is a botnet activity. Like the Obama site false, false Olimpic Beijing 2008 years ago. You are more of a command, for example, please install flash player, but this can steal bandwidth," said Prio.

Social engineering as the use of HP engineering facilities using the ATM card and can lead the victim to run the file or open the link will fit a particular sender.

"Someone get SMS shall send gifts and money through the ATM. Engineering social message that is presented through short that seems valid, it can lead victims will do," he said.

Last piracy is reputation. Online criminals use email to provide a real email web-server and large official to send the spam. "From reports CISCO, spam generated email pirate reputation of the three major web email providers only less than one percent from 7.6 percent of email traffic," said Prio. (Source: Kompas)