Virus Attacks that Couldn’t Happen without your Cooperation
Attacking computer networks these days, or installing a virus in a fortress of security at a major corporation involves doing more than making clever coding and performing clever digital confidence tricks on company employees to beguile them into clicking on something. A recent survey of hundreds of government agencies and corporations in the US found that nearly three-quarters of all computers in them had infections of one kind or another. These are organizations that spend billions of dollars in computer security every year. What ways do the hackers have of getting past such impregnable defenses?
Usually, it could be something really low-tech, but very clever. One way that has been reported recently, has been this: a hacker designs for good virus, loads it on a pen drive, and silk screens the company logo on the face of the drive. He then leaves it somewhere conspicuous, on the company’s premises, as in the parking lot or an ATM. The hacker hopes that a company employee will discover it, plug it into his company laptop to find out who it belongs to, and by doing this, will activate a virus inside that will steal all the company passwords stored on the laptop. It will then phone home, with its cache of stolen passwords. Most firewalls and other defenses do not count on having a company employee personally bring something in like this.
The Google attacks in China were a twist on the traditional phishing tactic. They were called spear-phishing attacks. They send counterfeit e-mails to people, taking the trouble to design the e-mails with official-looking emblems and stationery, but they aim for a specific person in the organization, and they mention a well-known friend in the from-address section too. It is all about getting past an employee, and having him invite the virus inside by his own actions. They don’t just need anti virus software anymore. They need anti-gullibility behavioral training for their employees.
Cell phones are not such targets for now with hackers so far, because there are so many models and so many different operating systems. But with a very popular model like the iPhone, things could start happening, that would turn the smart phone into a surveillance device that records pictures and audio. They can even tap into an iPhone, to learn exactly where the owner is, with GPS.
In a high-tech world, low-tech is often the way infiltrations take place these days.Often, we are just looking at hoof prints and thinking exotic zebras, when we should be thinking donkeys. We need to think low-tech once again today.
Latest target of money-minded hackers is social networking sites
Today one of the most serious problems faced by social networking sites is attacks by cyber criminals. Hackers choose social networking sites as they can collect personal identity and sales details of millions of people through social networks. They can misuse the collected data to loot people’s money. Not just money, the hi-tech thieves can take advantage of this and steal valuable data from members, using malware.
Some online mischief-makers can send worms as an ideal vector on site. For instance, if several employees of a given company have records on a social networking site that mention their company’s name, an attacker could send a worm like XSS (enables pickpockets to get the best news and information about people) to hunt down their account details.
The recent attack on social networking sites is the appearance of poisoned banner ads. It was a new type of attack, where if anyone clicks on one such ad, the adware automatically gets downloaded on their desktop and freezes their PC, according to iDefence, a research and security company. Anyway, the issue was fixed after a long time but the attack still found plenty of victims in a huge number of networking sites.
Recently, social networking giant Facebook has been targeted by hackers looking to steal users’ valuable information. It has been hit by five separate security problems in the last seven days, says a security expert.
Facebook had been attacked by four malicious applications along with a new variant of the Koobface virus. These rogue applications try to rob saleable data from profiles of those who open the link.
Every bad experience teaches us to discover a new way to solve the problems. Let us hope, that they will find a perfect way to resolve the security problems arising every hour on the net.
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