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Viruses & Malware
Viruses & Malware
Pre-installed malware turns up on new phones
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2014-03-06 03:14
David Jevans, CTO and founder of Marble Security, recently received some bad feedback from a potential customer testing his company's product, which helps organizations manage and secure their mobile devices.
"They basically said 'Your stuff doesn't work'," Jevans said. "It thinks Netflix is malicious."
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Researchers Create Computer Virus That Spreads Like a Cold
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2014-03-06 01:42
Early computer viruses spread over what we called "sneaker net," with one infected floppy disk inserted in one computer after another. Online networks make infections move much faster — but, until now, all the infections had been from computer to computer, or server to computer. They had never spread from one disconnected Wi-Fi network to another before.
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Hackers Can Infect Your Computer Even If It's Not Connected To The Internet
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2014-03-06 01:41
One of the go-to strategies for securing a computer network when a machine is infected with malware is to remove that machine from the network. This effectively prevents the malware from spreading to other devices.
The technique is called "air-gapping" — network admins are building a "roadblock" quite literally made out of air to stop malicious computer code from propagating throughout a network. With no cables connecting the affected machine to the rest of the network, malware has no "road" by which to travel.
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Android is almost impenetrable to malware
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2014-02-28 00:48
Until now, Google hasn’t talked about malware on Android because it did not have the data or analytic platform to back its security claims. But that changed dramatically today when Google’s Android Security chief Adrian Ludwig reported data showing that less than an estimated 0.001% of app installations on Android are able to evade the system’s multi-layered defenses and cause harm to users. Android, built on an open innovation model, has quietly resisted the locked down, total control model spawned by decades of Windows malware.
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Computer Virus Stalls an F1 Team's Car Testing
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2014-02-27 04:39
Technology can be wonderful, but sometimes — like when your Mom finds your Twitter feed — it just creates new problems that were previously unthinkable. The latest case in point: On the first day of the second Formula One preseason test, the Marussia team saw its 2014 car complete only three laps around the track because some witless oaf in the team garage downloaded a “Trojan-type virus” onto its computer system. Whoops.
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