Spyware - a growing threat

In a speech at a recent security conference, Ken Dunham, iDefensem's senior expert, said threats from spyware and adware have increased dramatically in briefly back here, causing great damage to corporate networks.

Source: Radified Websense statistics show that nearly 20% of organizations use hackers' tools or keyboard recording programs in the last 12 months, almost doubling from a year ago. (twelfth%). ' Although most employees have been equipped with awareness of web threats (attack by email, keylog program .), there are still many people who do not know they can become victims. of other sophisticated tricks such as hackers posing as bankers, phone companies, etc. to ask for sensitive information ', said the director of the Information Security Research Center. and technology at Websen, Dan Hubbard.

According to Dan Hubbard, organizations need to pioneer in the field of information security on the web, including technology, to prevent access to websites and dangerous applications as well as promote educational programs. Internet safety information for their employees.

The increase in spy programs

The program to record keyboard tasks (keyloggers) is a very dangerous spyware. It has the ability to record the use of keyboards and monitors to help hackers access other sessions (sessions) of users. Often hackers only look at sensitive information (passwords, personal information, credit card numbers .) to help access organizations' systems and illegally use network resources.

According to information security experts, from the past year, the program has continued to be a hot issue for businesses - 92% of organizations said they were attacked and invaded by spy programs. enter (2005 is 93% - statistics of Websen).

' We have no doubt the rise of spy programs and advertising programs in some years ago. Previously, we knew there were various attacks. They were then started automatically and grew in scale and scale '- Ken Dunham commented.

Dunham argues that the line between illegal and paid installations is 'fragile' because it is very difficult to prove that the installed spyware program is illegal. Advertising program is legitimate software that is used for money purposes. ' It's highly qualified hackers, because they can learn how to attack and install code without fear of responsibility. Even when caught, it is difficult to prove that they perform all illegal installations based on different computers. Hackers are making money from legal holes '.

'Bot' increased rapidly

A bot is a software that can be installed accidentally on a personal computer communicating via a command window and control center. The command window and control center are unauthorized, it controls many personal computers from one place and can be used for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, acting as a Decoy and store malicious content.

'Bot' (hacked computer network) is growing very fast, and is accompanied by tremendous harms to the corporate network, such as DoS (DDoS), DDoS attacks. (deny distributed services), stall and cause business losses.

Meanwhile, the report by Wensense said, only 34% of informatics experts say confidently block the activity of 'bots' (); 19% said that computers belong to them or infected laptops to bot networks; 62% said their company network doesn't have a 'bot' filter .

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