MySpace

Late last Friday, Avert Labs became aware of an interesting piece of malware. In this latest social engineering scenario an attacker sends a new “friend request” to MySpace users. When the user clicks on the picture or name of their new potential friend, an overlaid image of what looks like a legitimate Windows “Automatic Update” pop-up box is displayed. Clicking on or near this bogus dialog will result in a request for a file download that is visually disguised as a Microsoft update called “updateKB890830.exe” from a server named “winxpupdate.Microsoft[removed]”.

At the cutting edge of Web applications, where venture capitalists are chomping at the bit to fling money around in hopes that some of it will land on the next Google, hosted software services make real the thin-client dream.

By entrusting their data to sites like Gmail, Flickr, Google Docs or even Microsoft's nascent Live services, users ensure that they can access it anytime, anywhere they have a Web browser and a Net connection.

Mobile 3G Social Networking being the real goldmine that should be looked at much more closely - given much more press than it has.

What's the future? 3G Social Networking applications are worth more, today, than MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, Bebo, Second Life, Worlds of Warcraft, Skype etc!

The story, is about people - and what we are - A "we species" - human beings are highly social and are built to be so. But industrialisation, mass-consumption, mass-media - although providing us with greater prosperity - denied us some of our fundamental rights as people.