Malware can invade a smartphone when a consumer unknowingly clicks a malicious link in a text message or email, surfs a risky website, or downloads and uses a potentially unsafe app on their device.
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Finding the actor and the motive behind a malicious hack is often a near-impossible feat of forensics.
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It all starts with a malicious code pasted over a legitimate one.
For pages that are vulnerable to the trick, a malicious hacker can craft a link that replaces some variable in the page with anything that the hacker chooses.
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In a talk at the Black Hat security conference in Barcelona Thursday, Greek researcher Thanassis Giannetsos plans to present a new software tool that he and two colleagues have written that they say would allow a malicious hacker to penetrate a sensor network and change or delete data at will.
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The fizzy drink firm was breached in 2009 when a malicious link was emailed to a senior executive.
McCarren sought the help of police after a malicious Facebook post asserted that a teen-drinking party was to take place at her house.
The ministry said Al-Anzi kidnapped the boy and held him for a "malicious purpose" at a grocery store where he worked.
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At 14, he developed epilepsy from a head injury due to a malicious act at the hands of a 20 year old, ex-Marine, who was looking to impress a girl.
When the latest version of Mozilla's Firefox was released in June, bugs that allowed a site to install malicious programs on a visitor's computer were reported to security vendor Tipping Point within hours.
There are a number of ways that the handset owner could be duped into running malicious code, and the most likely is being duped into visiting a malicious website.
Accepting the download lead to a malicious software installation and payment screen, a scam commonly referred to as scareware.
When Distil identifies a malicious bot on one site, it creates a blacklisted behavioral profile that is deployed to all its customers.
Sasser does not have a malicious payload, meaning it does not destroy or alter information within a computer.
If a truly malicious worm were to infect meters in a given area, there would be a best- and a worst-case scenario.
"An attacker can craft a malicious internet link to execute malicious code remotely on victim's system, which has Origin installed, " wrote the researchers in a paper detailing their work.
In his personal blog Grossman has described how a malicious website could create form text fields, probably invisibly, for the contact info it wanted to extract from a Safari user.
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In 30% to 35% of the cases, a malicious insider was one of the causes.
If this is in fact a malicious attack, those responsible will be held accountable.
If a malicious alteration is made in closed source software, it can go unnoticed.
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Once downloaded, it secretly installs a malicious adware tool known in security circles as Hotbar.
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The US government claims he committed a malicious crime - the biggest military computer hack ever.
Is this a clever and funny stunt or a malicious and intentional effort to harm?
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Unlike a malicious worm, however, his images were incredibly easy to disarm, despite their aesthetic armor.
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This is also a malicious pseudo-truth used to justify the establishment of the Federal Reserve in 1913.
Add in the element of a malicious and intentionally designed attack, and the problem could be catastrophic.
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However, a malicious embed code could potentially do the exact same thing to your Galaxy S III.
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The team says they have built a malicious charger named Mactans, which they plan to demonstrate at Black Hat.
The message included a malicious link which was, at its peak, being accessed more than 2, 000 times every hour.
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So far, nobody's ever seen a malicious virus or worm of that sort.
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