Security Bites 120: When social networks host malware
This week, guest Ryan Naraine talks about social-media malware, among other security-related things, with CNET's Robert Vamosi.
In this week's Security Bites podcast, Robert Vamosi speaks with Ryan Naraine, security evangelist for Kaspersky and Zero Day blogger for ZDNet, about malicious software.
Naraine recently spoke at a conference on emerging security threats sponsored by the Georgia Tech Information Security Center about the increasing risks of malware on social networks, such as Facebook pages that to lead people to Google pages with additional links to malware sites (a two-step infection process), and the more straightforward approach of ="http: news.cnet.com="" 8301-1009_3-10034327-83.html"="">Facebook being used for botnets.
In this podcast, Naraine and Vamosi talk about the changing nature of threats today and what we might see in the future.
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