In todays world , the one of the main resource of any business is "Information". The company that handles information ( can be of any type , about customers, their future plans, company info ) in a secured way gets their run good on the play. But in this widely connected world the information passing and receiving isn't a easy man to man exchange. There are several intruders waiting , aiming at these info's. A small breach in security may result in serious damage.
Ok, i think you have got what the story, might about be. Yes , the information theft. All might to aware of the malicious softwares like Torjan hourse, Black orifice etc.. that are widely used by hackers. Hackers spread them via internet using file downloading sites etc..
The trend has changed , the most targeted platform nowadays are "APP". As apps are easily available to everyone , affordable plus they are enabled in devices that contain useful data , so they are the best targets at present. Recently the well know photo sharing app "Instagram" which was first developed for iOS devices , got its version in android. Being a famous app , hackers created a app that looks all alike instagram and not up to the surprise , it was downloaded in thousands. The trojan hourse that is present in it was designed in such a way that it accesses the phone to make calls to unknown numbers and go to unnecessary webpages.
It might look like "Whats the big deal? a single page load". Recently US military experts have demonstrated a new smartphone app that can turn our mobile's camera into a spying tool for cyber criminals. They can track out images of our house, chequebook and other information around us. The military experts enabled those apps in 20 devices without the knowledge of the users. After a certain period of usage, they could easily track down the places they go, images of them, most importantly the images of important documents they handle.
The killing feature of the app is that it takes the images of our house ( say for example ) and analysis that its worth a info. If some clarity disorder or blank pic comes out, it discards and sends only to useful ones to the server. Using that the hacker can create a 3-D view of our house and easily depict the valuables in it. It also records the location,temperature, images etc with respect to time for better detail gathering. Researcher Robert Templeman said that the app can run in the background of any smartphone using the Android 2.3 operating system. Thus its capable of running in almost all smartphones.
As its devised by US military experts, it will only be used to spy on ill doers . At the same time we people should be award in opting our app. Who knows ?? hacker may track our home to steal our mp3 player :) Anyways beware...
Ok, i think you have got what the story, might about be. Yes , the information theft. All might to aware of the malicious softwares like Torjan hourse, Black orifice etc.. that are widely used by hackers. Hackers spread them via internet using file downloading sites etc..
The trend has changed , the most targeted platform nowadays are "APP". As apps are easily available to everyone , affordable plus they are enabled in devices that contain useful data , so they are the best targets at present. Recently the well know photo sharing app "Instagram" which was first developed for iOS devices , got its version in android. Being a famous app , hackers created a app that looks all alike instagram and not up to the surprise , it was downloaded in thousands. The trojan hourse that is present in it was designed in such a way that it accesses the phone to make calls to unknown numbers and go to unnecessary webpages.
It might look like "Whats the big deal? a single page load". Recently US military experts have demonstrated a new smartphone app that can turn our mobile's camera into a spying tool for cyber criminals. They can track out images of our house, chequebook and other information around us. The military experts enabled those apps in 20 devices without the knowledge of the users. After a certain period of usage, they could easily track down the places they go, images of them, most importantly the images of important documents they handle.
The killing feature of the app is that it takes the images of our house ( say for example ) and analysis that its worth a info. If some clarity disorder or blank pic comes out, it discards and sends only to useful ones to the server. Using that the hacker can create a 3-D view of our house and easily depict the valuables in it. It also records the location,temperature, images etc with respect to time for better detail gathering. Researcher Robert Templeman said that the app can run in the background of any smartphone using the Android 2.3 operating system. Thus its capable of running in almost all smartphones.
As its devised by US military experts, it will only be used to spy on ill doers . At the same time we people should be award in opting our app. Who knows ?? hacker may track our home to steal our mp3 player :) Anyways beware...
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