Computer and Internet security firm, NetWitness states that there is a new type of computer virus that is currently emerging and troubling world. The virus is called 'kneber botnet' is able to collect passwords to access online financial, social networking sites and email systems from computer viruses and reported the information was that he got to the hacker.
According to Chief Executive Officer of NetWitness Amit Yoran, there are about 75,000 computers belonging to 2500 organizations in the world that has been infected with botnets.
This virus was found in January 2010 and considered very dangerous because the conventional way of protection against viruses is not enough to counteract the botnet to work on computers that are healthy.
The race by hackers to create viruses latest computer apparently still continues and has claimed casualties is not small. I do not know how many companies or organizations who burglarized because of them and seemed to "war" is not showing signs of ending.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Virus in SmartPhone
When we tried to see far ahead into the waves of progress IT (Information Technology) will be more clear that it is not only a desktop computer or laptop that has our general met. TabletPC, phone, or PDA that looks compact with any real grip is deservedly called a computer. Especially for the latest products that have been injected with a variant of the Symbian OS operating system types or Microsoft Windows Mobile for cell phone or Palm OS and Microsoft Windows PocketPC for PDAs.
Based on the above facts, we can infer that one day these gadgets would be plagued by the virus. And proven, right! For SmartPhone, after Cabir present and spread with the help of Bluetooth is infected, follow from the two latest malware, the Mosquito and Skull Trojan. Mosquito is a game that works on Symbian, funny in addition to entertaining the user he also secretly send messages (SMS) to certain numbers that are the service (service) paid, causing the disappearance of the mobile phone. As with the Skull Trojan, shareware programs downloaded from one of this Internet site may lead to malfunction of the applications running on your smartphone plus a sweet trail by replacing the icons of the application program with pictorial icons skull. The only good thing left by this trojan was when he was still allows you to have fun, but that's it, that's it.
The picture above really can not be underestimated. Especially in this era of mobile like this, where the smoothness of an activity has become highly dependent in the presence of the gadget itself. Call it mobile banking, which contains the activity gradually money will be used by virus makers to create a variant that is not only damaging the phone system but also capable of sending certain data confidential to the virus creator. The phone number in the phonebook example. Well, we better be careful from now on as well.
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