Allegra admits that, technically, there's little difference between jailbreaking phones and hacking them for more malicious ends.
Connect those data firehoses to computers that have been infected with malicious software that turns them into criminally-controlled botnets, and you can expect them to spew out more malicious traffic than ever.
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This masquerade ended when apps seeded with BadNews got a prompt from one of three command and control servers, then it started pushing out and installing a more malicious programme called AlphaSMS. This steals credit by sending text messages to premium rate numbers.
On the benevolent side, intelligence arsenal including the Honeypot are helping researchers to learn more about the malicious activity going on in the cybersphere.
When DefCon's hackers do venture into the illegal, it's often based on impulses that are more libertarian than malicious, says a hacker known as "Dead Addict, " another of DefCon's organizers.
The result of moving email marketing in-house is more control of security standards, less risk of malicious targeting by hackers and access to more data for email execution.
More than other strains of malicious code, the Storm worm has proven itself difficult to outsmart since it was discovered in January 2007.
And this is the reason why the wearing of the burqa has become a necessity, more to preserve women from malicious eyes than to spare men the temptations of infinite allurements.
But last May, when Chinese hackers infected more than 500, 000 Web sites with malicious software designed to steal personal information, visitors to those sites received something more disturbing: an invisible password-stealing program on their machines, and an eerie silence from the owners of the sites they'd visited.
American laptop users are also doubly inclined to download music and movies to corporate machines, making them more likely to unwittingly install hidden malicious software.
Since it seized the web domains in mid-September, Microsoft said almost eight million infected machines had tried to contact one or more of the 70, 000 malicious domains.
Over the past year, the number of PCs ensnared in botnets--herds of users' computers infected with malicious software--has more than quadrupled, according to botnet researchers at the Shadowserver Foundation.
In a report from IDC last month, the analyst firm described how hundreds of tests on pirate software sources showed that more than a third led to Trojans and malicious adware.
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But Sussex Police began an investigation, interviewing the MP for 90 minutes under caution on suspicion of sending a malicious communication, and it was more than six months before he was informed that no further action would be taken.
In the past two months, the company has found more than a hundred specimens of Mac-targeted malicious code.
Another, often disastrous, consequence of growth is that it enriches corrupt and malicious regimes, allowing them to spend more on their military.
More challenging is increasing data protection amid the surge in malicious attacks coming from inside and outside the organization.
Unfortunately, during malicious attacks the worst-case scenario is more likely to be true.
While Anonymous is often characterized as a group of malicious cyber-terrorists, they struck me more as a group of earnest young protesters with a dark sense of humor and a brilliant knack for viral marketing.
There was some malicious gossip that his papers demonstrated that he was more of a swot than an intellectual, but, nonetheless, it meant that Wilson was never likely to suffer from any inferiority complexes when it came to dealing with his chancellors.
Interest in the Android OS as a malicious code writers fave will continue this year, yielding more mobile viruses and new malware codes for users to dodge.
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The message included a malicious link which was, at its peak, being accessed more than 2, 000 times every hour.
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Police have begun busting a cabal of programmers who used malicious computer software known as a Trojan horse to spy on more than a dozen companies and then sell information about their operations to competitors.
Remember that back in June, you may recall, there was this big press conference to unveil something the FBI called Operation Malicious Mortgage, and the bureau announced that it had arrested more than 400 mortgage brokers, assessors, straw buyers, and basically those people who lied on their mortgage applications.
For the first time this year, IDC's annual information security survey revealed that information security officers were more concerned with stopping employee-caused data breaches than with guarding their networks against malicious software--which had ranked as their top concern for the eight previous years.
In stark contrast, the malicious host threat mitigation approach is both conceptually stronger as well as empirically more robust given its eradication of at a minimum all of the most material threat vectors currently plaguing cyber space (but is admittedly quite new and would benefit from experiential seasoning).
As Reddit notes, your news feed is more likely to be full of spam images if your friends are stupid unwise enough to fall for malicious link attacks.
The software giant pledged to fix the update but its efforts became more urgent when security firm EEye Digital Security discovered that the crash circumstances could be exploited to run malicious code on that machine.
Over the past several weeks, researchers have tracked a hacker exploit that's infected more than half a million pages around the Web, invisibly redirecting visitors to those pages to servers that install malicious software on their PCs.
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