It’s back: the long con. Social networking sites, such as Facebook and MySpace, are proving to be fertile ground for cybercriminals. Not only can they launch malware and adware schemes, but attackers can also “start running long cons on people through which they can play on sympathies to distribute malware or infiltrate an organization to hold data for ransom,” said Michael Whitehurst, vice president of global support with Marshal, a maker of Web and e-mail filtering technologies. Which means the time is nigh for IT to enact, and enforce, protection policies. “Beyond that they need technical safeguards to back those policies, but the outlook for all this is still pretty grim,” said Paul Henry, vice president of technology evangelism at network gateway maker Secure Computing. “Most companies are barely providing sufficient protection in the context of Web 1.0.” Read the full story here. Security