{"id":2236,"date":"2009-12-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/08\/hackers-targeting-banks-social-sites\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:40:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:40:55","slug":"hackers-targeting-banks-social-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/08\/hackers-targeting-banks-social-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Targeting Banks, Social Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A yearly security report released Tuesday by technology company Cisco says that banks and online social networks are growing targets for cyber criminals.  Strategies used to hack into social-networking sites include grabbing passwords and then utilizing the fact that people only have one password for all their accounts.  Cisco said that a specific computer worm has been spread to more than three million computers since 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers can comb through profiles for information and emails of employees or accounting departments to &#8220;spear phish,&#8221; or aim schemes at specific workers.  The possibility for workplace computers to be contaminated via a social-networking site is becoming more commonplace due to the increase of a computer Trojan named Zeus constructed to digitally steal money.  People utilize Zeus to empty accounts of &#8220;400,000 to 1.5 million dollars a shot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spam is also a highly useful method for convincing people into downloading malware or purchasing bogus products.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.redorbit.com\/news\/technology\/1796399\/hackers_targeting_banks_social_sites\/index.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4723,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions\/4723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}