Wednesday, 6 April 2011

The computer science threats grow. Italy is the third producer of malware in Europe

Stuxnet like tip of diamond of the aimed attacks. The identity thefts are by now a diffuse problem that interests all and not little ill-fated ones, see the medium number of 260mila exposed personal profiles for every single violation of data provoked from the hacker in the course of 2010. The social network by now they are assumed to preferential channel of attack in order to transform the customers in victims of malware and of phishing and the offensives hurled via Web from the cyber crinali are increased the year last of 93%.
The vulnerabilities of the operating systems furnitures for smartphone and tablet are increased of 42% (arriving to 163, against the 115 of the 209) and are the 286 million new threats found on the whole from January to all slid December, with a average cost in order to place remedy to a single compromissione calculated in 7,2 million dollars. And still. The field of the health has been the shot at field more (with 27% of the violations of data in a position to determining identity thefts during the period of observation) and approximately three quarters of all the Spam sent in 2010 it regarded produced druggist. The Rustock, immensest botnet observed the passed year, controlled beyond a million bot, while Chrome has been the browser with more vulnerability but also what it has limited to a single day the exposure time to the threat (against the four of Internet Explorer). From seven cent of dollar to 100 dollars, at last, is the range of prices found in the offered passages on the  black market  for every number of  stolen  credit card.
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Those evidenced are some of the tantissimi given contained in the Internet Security Threat Report di Symantec, reassumed classic anniversary of the activities of the threats of Internet to world-wide level that collects the data of 86 countries and the replies of beyond eight billions of email and a billion of demands on the Web elaborated every day. A relationship that Antonio Forzieri, Emea Security Solution Architect of the Californian society, has introduced today to the press not having lacked to emphasize the role - not certainly shining - of the Belpaese as regards sensibility to the topic of the computer science emergency. Italy can in fact  exhibit  an obvious scaling in the ranking of the Countries in which the attacks informed to us have origin. We are in other words one of the main producers of malevoli activities (Spam and phishing, to malware, botnet, attacks Web based) in the Emea region, posizionati to the third party place behind Reign Unito and Germany and in front of Russia. And, since it emphasizes the capacity of the problem, draft of attacks that for approximately 30% of the cases address towards citizens and companies of the Peninsula.
3% of all the world-wide Spam come from the Belpaese
From the relationship of Symantec it emerges also as we are also to the seventh place in classifies world-wide of the Countries from which the attacks (with a weight of 4% come on the total), classify that it sees to primeggiare the United States, and the nation that between Europe and Middle East has the greater number of PC infects from botnet (15% of the total), to the shoulders of the Germany. The computer nets infect are the gun tube for the attacks to malware and in such sense Italy generates 3% of all world-wide Spam (and 5% of that one of the Emea region) and accommodates 4% of the hosts compromises that on a worldwide basis send to undesired messages and 2% of the sites of phishing, salting from the eighth to the quarter position between the Emea countries that accommodate the greater number of URL from which they come in particular fished in fraudulent way the personal data of the Internet customers (of financial services). For Rome, at last, there is a little envies them supremacy: it is the fifth city to the world for number of bot active and naturally before in Italy, continuation in the order from Milan, Cagliari and Arezzo (the presence of some cities is justified also with the center of some important operating telco and service Internet provider).
Smartphone more and more popular, risks in increase
Google has had to remove approximately 50 applications from its Android market to March 2011 and cancelled in remote modality the malignant codes from the devices of the customers. According to the experts of Symantec this is a much meaningful example of like, in future, we will assist to an ulterior development of the risk scenes and of the number of threats for who it possesses and it uses in massive way smartphone or a tablet. To the esponenziale increase of the number of mobile phones in circulation (the relationship with the PC estimated for 2013 from Gartner is of two to one), which that one of the tablet joins, and of the consequent increase of the mobile user an increase of the activity of the hacker will correspond insomma. With which attempts  Particularly to attack services of piece of furniture banking and piece of furniture proximity payment.
In the 2010 majority of the attacks to malware against dispositive furnitures they have been programs Trojan Horse under form of legitimate applications to the appearance and in many cases the criminals have hit the customers inserting the malignant code in valid applications, distributing then to these false applications through main the store publics. The purposes of malware more you attend in mobile key are essentially the theft of information and identity, the tracking of the position of the customer, the shipment of Sms to numbers to payment and the encircling of the systems to protection of the transactions on linens. Like saying: who uses a smartphone in order to be annoying in Net must be careful and the new evidence arrives from the fact that in the first months of the 2011 cybercriminali these techniques have already taken advantage of in order to hit hundred of thousands of devices. Arousing comprehensible apprehensions in the It responsibles of the companies.

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