Data Stealing Malware

"Science and technology News" August 20, according to foreign media reports, the internationally renowned information security leading manufacturer Kaspersky Laboratory (Kaspersky Labs) recently released data showing that in the second quarter of 2012, malicious software for Android devices grew nearly three times times. Over the past 3 months, Kaspersky said, more than 14,900 new malware programs have been targeted at the Android platform, where nearly half of the malicious files are categorized as multi-purpose trojans that steal data from smartphones and can be downloaded and installed from remote servers. There are one-fourth of malicious ...

"Editor's note" at the end of last year, US big retailer Target was exposed to hackers, causing up to 40 million credit cards and 70 million of consumers ' personal information stolen by hackers, Aorato's researchers and their team recorded all the tools attackers used to attack target. It also describes how an attacker penetrates a retailer, spreads within its network, and eventually grabs credit card data from a POS system. The following is the original: A new study by security company Aorato shows that personally identifiable information (PII) and credit and debit card data are available at the beginning of the year ...

Beijing time August 25 Morning News, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in Friday, more than 1000 U.S. companies are being subjected to a round of information security attacks. The attack was aimed at the store cashier system. The Department of Homeland Security has urged all companies to check for possible malware infections. UPS said earlier last week that the company's system was infected with Pos malware called Backoff, which could lead to the disclosure of some 105,000 user trading data from 51 UPS stores from January to August last year. In these data leakage accidents, malware usually attacks the POS system, when using ...

Top 5 Hazardous Enterprises Mobile Threats and Security Defense Measures. Most business employees today require some applications on the mobile side to do the work almost every day, but once a malicious attacker is targeting an application on your phone, the impact of the attack on the device may be a chain . Top Five Mobile-Endangered Enterprise Threats David Richardson, Director of Lookout Products, and his team concluded that five major mobile-based malware families impersonate employees to download malware as a true corporate application. Research shows that these five active moves ...

All kinds of innovative solutions, driven by mobile, cloud computing, social technology and large data applications, are in the ascendant, but another round of security risks cannot be overlooked. The emergence of these technologies satisfies our need for it innovation on the one hand, but it also becomes a hotbed for the development of new cyber threats. The potential threats posed by mobile security embattled mobile computing are mainly derived from the objective reality of "low security or Low security" of mobile communication itself. According to the agency, the software used in such systems is not sufficiently "mature" and because of its "portability" ...

With the popularity of cloud computing, "cloud security" has become a key word, by the enterprise users and manufacturers of concern. At the same time, research institutes have shown that one of the main reasons for blocking users from using cloud computing is the concern about cloud computing security. This issue of "communications World Weekly" invited Symantec China Regional Security product director Bu Xian, Ming Wanda President Wang Zhihai, McAfee China technical director Zheng and other experts to discuss related issues. Triggers policy, regulatory risk issues: What are the security issues that are often faced when an enterprise deploys a cloud or migrates to the cloud? Which is the most concern of the company? Bu ...

Virtualization and cloud with synchronous security provide the ability to manage and automate it mission-critical tasks more effectively. 　　In an era where it resources are more stressful than ever and the budget is stressful, this is an important opportunity for companies to stay competitive. Over the next 2010 years, the benefits of virtualization and cloud computing will be included in the discussion of the IT infrastructure of most enterprises. Virtualization has proven its value, cost savings, and better utilization of resources through server consolidation. In the server ...

Over the next 2010 years, the benefits of virtualization and cloud computing will be included in the discussion of the IT infrastructure of most enterprises. Virtualization has proven its value, cost savings, and better utilization of resources through server consolidation. 　　This technology is used more in the infrastructure of the server. The rise of Software as a service (Software-as-a-service) application, such as Salesforce.com, and the success of IT outsourcing illustrates the remote computing method, which is a more efficient way to give users technical capital ...

Recently, a "piranha" malware attacks tens of thousands of of mobile phones, the malware not only affects the normal use of mobile phones, but also let people unknowingly "deducted fees." In reality, with the development of mobile Internet, smartphones and open Android operating systems, more and more users are being threatened by the mobile virus. In the 2009, spam messages were a major problem for mobile phone users. At that time, many security companies have entered the field of mobile security, but the mobile phone security needs did not erupt, resulting in security manufacturers "Ituge" situation, the market "false exuberant" ...

Recently, the consolidated web, mail, and data security Solutions provider Websense released a security forecast for 2009. It is noteworthy that "cloud security" technology is abused, Web applications and Web 2.0 applications, and other malicious use of the risk will increase dramatically. 　　Hackers make the most of the web-launched attacks, and in 2009 a malicious attack that uses Web API services to gain trust, steal a user's credentials, or confidential information will increase. At the same time, as Web sites that allow users to edit content are becoming more and more popular, the number appears ...