Web exploits and malicious email are two key infection vectors for malware.
Specifically, he said that they used malicious software sent via an email that enabled them to intercept his emails for a three-month period in 2006.
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The email contained a malicious link which was clicked on - allowing for hackers to install keyloggers and other forms of malware on Mr Etchells' machine.
Only, the wireless network you signed into was not only unsecure, it was a decoy network setup by a malicious hacker targeting people casually checking email, like you.
They have not been able to establish how exactly the hackers broke into the system, but believe it may have been through a so-called spear-phishing attack, where an employee clicked on an email or link containing malicious code.
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.
The percentage of emails with malicious attachments targeting U.S. email accounts went up at the same rate at which the percentage of spam originating in the U.S. increased (by 13.5 percentage points).
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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When key partners and system staff are using the Internet or email, they are most vulnerable to malicious software.
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Worms and viruses will use any available channel to spread, as recipients of infected email attachments, visitors to websites loaded with malicious software and users of peer-to-peer networks can all testify.
How many of us when reading an apparently valid link in an email would bother to check whether the link is actually valid or whether instead it takes you to a malicious site.
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