Security

Define the following.

Phising

Pharming

Gina Carton & The Chen Yin Wo Wang [|Trick or Tweet? Malware Abundant in Twitter URLs]Almost 1/500 of the addresses posted on Twitter connects individuals to sites containing malware. The distribution of malware is available due to the shortened URLs on Twitter, which hide the actual links of website. Thus, self-filtering these links on Twitter from users becomes more than difficult. Furthermore, about 13% of Twitter messages are created by spammers/hackers and 100-1,000 URLs are discovered daily containing malware. One of the most frequent malware is a Trojan Horse.HTMLIFrame.ob, which is responsible for the 31% malicious content found on Twitter.

Section 1** - Security - Many URLs in Twitter lead to sites hosting malware such as Trojan-Clicker. HRML. Iframe. ob . T hey are easily spread due to their shortened form which hides their true addresses. About half of the URLs posted in Twitter messages are generated by spammers and others with evil intensions. This undermines the security of Twitter in which both the company and Kaspersky Lab have to investigate the problem in order to improve the security and stop further malware spread.
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- Business and Employment - The Twitter Company has to deal with the uploaded addresses that lead the viewers to sites hosting malware. The Kaspersky Lab, a company in Moscow examined the case and discovered that between 100 and 1000 URLs a day lead to sites containing malware. Twitter and Kaspersky are affected by these URLs since they are responsible to stop further malwares accessing into the users' computers. They have to come up with a solution and in fact, Kaspersky plans to tackle the problem in the future by spreading Krawler that scans URLs to other social networking sites.
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- Home and Leisure - T witter is a widespread form of social networking and entertainment because it enables users to keep updated with their friends, as well as know the current trending topics. However, with more than 100-1,000 sites being found daily to contain malicious content, the ability to enjoy one's leisure has been hindered.

DDOS attack strikes S. Korea

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- Arts, entertainment and leisure - The article says that, due to the "Distribute Denial of Service" attack South Korea's most used search engine 'Naver', and the - Politics and Goverment -
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John Ro and Do-yup Lim [|China's computers at hacking risk]

- Security - In this article, in China, the government has mandated that all computers in the country must have the screening to software called //Green Dam Youth Escort// that filters offensive materials from the internet. According to Isaac Mao, a blogger and social entrepreneur in China, says that there is a prolbem that is cause by this software. He states that "tests had shown that communications between the software and the servers at the company that developed the program were unencrypted." This could allow hackers to steal people's personal information without an authorised access and malicious viruses can be spread to the computers. "For example, a hacker could use malicious code to take control of PCs using the software."
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- Education - This article states that "Green Dam Youth Escort software" in China has become a disadvantage for academics. Educational materials could be blocked if it contained pictures that have skin colour similar to pornography. However, as a result, users were limited to accessing websites. One user had commented that a picture of a "naked pig was sent to the black list."
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-Arts, Entertainment, Leisure - "Website such as Twitter and the photo-sharing site Flickr were blocked in an attempt by the government to prevent online discussion on the subject."

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