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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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Innovations in cyber crime</span><br>
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alt="" height="68" width="67"></a>Malicious
attacks on websites continue to make the news.
Whether it's Anonymous <a
href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/anonymous-publishes-israeli-scada-log-in-details-183975">exposing
a whole country's</a> control and data systems
or hackers stealing huge amounts of data <a
href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/248244/zappos_hacked_what_you_need_to_know.html">last
weekend from Zappos</a>, the pace of malicious
activity on the web has certainly not slowed down.
While these big-news attacks generally use rather
traditional hacking methods, the nasty people on
the web have also been busy developing new attack
vectors, and you might want to be aware of them.
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.securitynewsdaily.com/fake-apps-android-market-1407/">Developer
sneaks fake apps into Android market</a>
(SecurityNewsDaily/Matt Liebowitz) "Behind their
innocent facade, the cloned apps hid a secret
weapon - they compromised customers' smartphones
by using them to send premium-rate text messages
to the tune of about $20. 'The texts are
notifications that the user has been charged
around $5, but you end up getting 3-4 of them in
one shot,' DroidGamers wrote. 'A free download
just became a $20 purchase.'"</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16576542">Hackers
spread malware via children's gaming websites</a>
(BBC News) "'I believe that children's computers
are more vulnerable to attacks because they are
usually in worse shape - in other words the
owners are less likely to have the latest
security updates installed,' said Mr Vlcek
[AVAST Software chief technical officer]. 'The
child may also be less suspicious that something
wrong is happening than an adult would be.'"</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.securityweek.com/cyber-criminals-target-mobile-devices-qr-codes">Cyber-criminals
target mobile devices with QR codes</a>
(SecurityWeek/Brian Prince) "'This is the first
time we have seen a QR code used in an active
spam campaign,' Patrik Runald, senior manager of
security research at Websense, told <em>SecurityWeek</em>.
'Because QR codes are the ultimate URL
obfuscator, with the right social lure, QR codes
can become increasingly more successful in
driving users to websites hosting malware
targeting the mobile device.'"</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/29/security-flaw-in-printers_n_1119558.html">Security
flaw in printers could expose businesses to
hackers</a> (Huffington Post/Janean Chun)
"Keith Moore, HP's chief technologist, also
disagrees that the threat of security breaches
through printer hacking could already be
widespread. Moore points out that the
researchers didn't use passwords on the printers
they tested and adds that no consumers have
reported similar incidents. 'There has been no
data at all that any of this has been exploited.
So we're looking at the theoretic possibility,
in a lab, to see if that can ever occur in a
real world situation.'"</li>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Cyber
attack fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">This
sobering <a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CS01Hmjv1pQ">11-minute
video</a> of a TED talk by Ralph Langner reminds
us that cyber attacks may not always come from
criminals.
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