Cyber criminals increasingly are moving away from trying to break into computers directly, choosing instead to target Internet users where they spend much of their time online — at social networking Web sites, new data suggests. In an analysis of cyber crime activity in the 2nd half of 2007, security vendor Symantec Corp. found that two social networking sites together were the target of 91 percent of U.S.-based phishing Web sites. Social networking sites also were the leading targets of phishing sites located in four other countries listed by Symantec in its phishing Top 10. Source: Symantec Corp. Hijacked social networking pages often are used to host malicious software or “malware” directly or to host links phishing or malware sites that are then advertised in messages sent to all of the contacts in the victim’s social network. Why on earth would hackers want to bother stealing user names and passwords