Guest post by Dr. Guy Bunker , Chief Scientist & Distinguished Engineer, Symantec Corporation
I don’t mean how much are you worth, it’s more about your information, your ‘data’. Times have changed and while the average cyber-criminal is still after bank account details and credit card numbers, they are also targeting other information as well. In fact anything that you protect with a username and password is of interest to them. Why? The answer is simple, it’s all about money – to them. At Symantec we have a Global Intelligence Network which monitors the internet for spam, viruses and other malware, however it also monitors some of the underground economy / black market traffic in data – your data. This information is published regularly in our Internet Security Threat Report, available from www.symantec.com . Here are some of the findings on just how much your data is worth to someone else:
Of course, just like any other ‘business’, you can get volume disco...
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Ein freundliches Moin!
Bin neu hier, hoffe also dass ich alles korrekt mache.
Habe von meinem Schwiegervater eine Datei geschickt bekommen, diese gestartet und diese verhielt sich etwas komisch - es passierte gar nichts, aber als ich sie nochmals starten wollte, bekam ich die Meldung, dass schon ein Programm auf dieses zugreifen würde.
In der AutoStart der Registry HKLM ist plötzlich folgender Eintrag zu finden und nicht mehr zu löschen:
spool_sv - D:ToolsInfoRapidInfoRapid by ... more
Hallo
Also. ähm Ja..^^ Nachdem ich NetPumper installiert hatte.. Startete er dieses Prog irgendwie nicht.. Die .exe File war nicht vorhanden.. Naja ok.. dann hab ichs mir gleich gedacht.. Fix gegoogelt.. und oh nayy Scheiße Trojaner installiert -.-
Naja dann erstma ewig lang gegoogelt wie ich das Ding wegbekommen könnte .. bloß irgendwie helfen mir die Anleitungen darüber alle nicht so weiter.. Die meisten sind auch schon 2 Jahre alt..
Wäre nett wenn ihr mir helfen könntet
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seit ein paar Tagen habe ich irgendwie keine Kontrolle mehr ueber meinen PC. Zum einen erkennt mein Lapotop zwar die Drahtlosnetzwerke, aber die Browser koennen die Server nicht finden, Skype funktioniert hingegen. Man merkt auch an anderen Dingen, dass irgendetwas nicht stimmt, z.B funktioniert die Systemwiederherstellung nicht. Ich kann ueber msconfig nichts veraendern, der Systemstart ist jetzt z.B benutzerdefiniert, was er vorher nicht war und das laesst sich nicht aendern. Ich kan... more
Source: Blog: Richard Hackathorn [ link ] The session dealt with the WebSphere Business Process Management (BPM) by Eric Herness, IBM Distinguished Engineer and BPM Chief A... more
APACS have just announced their latest stats and there’s a lot of coverage in the media about internet fraud:
The Guardian
The Times
BBC
Reuters
The gist of it is that losses from online banking fraud jumped 44 percent to reach £33.5m last year following a surge in phishing attacks.
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According to a report in MIT Technology Review , researchers from Indiana University and Symantec, an antivirus company have found a potential problem with the routers that millions of people around the world use to connect to the internet.
The problem comes about because most people don’t change the default password on their router - the device that connects a computer to a broadband or ADSL internet connection. This allows hackers to change their settings so that when you enter a ... more
I’ve been trying to get more stats on hard disk failure rates. I came across this report: Disk failures in the real world: what does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you .
It reports that manufacturers quote mean time to failure of around 1-1.5m hours, or on average a 0.88% chance of failing in any given year. However, the writers find that results in the real world “typically exceed 1%, with 2-4% common and up to 13% observed in some systems.”
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