E-cigarettes may be better for your health than normal ones, but spare a thought for your poor computer – electronic cigarettes have become the latest vector for malicious software, according to online reports.
The hashed passwords seem to have been altered to be all in lowercase, rather than case specific as entered by the users originally, which makes them easier to break, but possibly less useful for malicious hackers, according to Leaked Source.
In fact, negligence by employees and contractors has been a more common cause of corporate data breaches in the United States than malicious attacks, according to a study of 2011 done by the Ponemon Institute, a research center on data security, and financed by Symantec, a data security company.
In addition to going after the man behind SpamIt, Russian authorities recently arrested two spammers in Taganrog, a port town in southern Russia, who had a database of nearly two billion United States and European Union e-mail addresses they had used to spread malicious programs, according to a December report by the HostExploit blog.
Use cases include the labelling of malicious samples according to families during triage of suspected malware.
That would potentially allow them to run malicious commands, according to Prof Alan Woodward, a security expert at Surrey university.
Finally, it provides a way to detect malicious nodes according to trust values.
Defense schemes are proposed to detect malicious nodes according to their reporting histories.
This paper investigates the vulnerability of self-organizing networks subject to malicious attacks according to a new framework.
By calculating the suspicious level, we propose a scheme to detect malicious user according to their report histories.
