Common Information Security Threats

To start off with I chose to go with our banking or financial industry. The banking industry is constantly getting attacked by various methods on a daily basis. I chose this industry because I happen to know someone who works in the security sector at Wells Fargo Bank, he was a good person to get information on what he sees on a daily or weekly basis. This paper is the opinion of myself and with gathered information from various resources.

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New technology has spurred innovative ways to spend money. As mobile payment systems continually develop, consumer financial and personal information risk exposure. Industry officials state the technology is growing, but security specialists argue growth of will inevitably attract fraud. Smartphone owners must treat their phones as a miniature computer and equip proper anti-virus and malware software. Enacting preventative methods will help thwart security breaches over mobile networks. (Ladendorf, 2013)

Today’s technology-based society is plagued with an over abundance of mobile devices. These devices now control our homes, our transportation, and our

The purpose of this research paper is to investigate the huge problem that the world is facing when it comes to malware and the infection of the world’s large smart phone community. In the world today there are over 7 billion phones that is at risk, I will be looking to identify some of the threats. We will also tackle the issue of combating the attacks of malware. Malware can be very costly and dangerous to the everyday person. Apple machine was once thought to safe from malware and viruses; however, the security of the Apple that was perceived by most has come to a halt. Earlier this year in January, a new tech support scam found its way onto iMacs and MacBook’s, and froze the user’s system by repeatedly opening iTunes. The installed malware

Many users download this adware, there are exactly 5 million installations, this application seems to be like a dual account application. These malware ask you to log to your social medias , then it steals information from your social medias .Also ,the Russian security expose that it contains malware called android MulDrop which has others malware inside him like Tridian which is directly relationship with Trojan horses. In conclusion only for installing an app we can get a malware that will harm our phones without we notice

Lawton, G. (2008). Is it finally time to worry about mobile malware? Computer, 41(5), 12-14.

Smartphones are a ripe target for hackers for several reasons, one is that smartphones have limited security and antimalware protection. Second malware creators can access email and contact lists, monitor personal communications, and capture vital data such as

Malware on personal devices in a BYOD setting can be dangerous to the organization. Employees who accidently download malicious apps to their personal devices can potentially give hackers unauthorized access to corporate data. Coupled with other threats like jail-broken phones, preinstalled malware prior to shipping and mobile vulnerabilities can be a major nightmare to the IT department implementing BYOD (“Implementing BYOD,” 2012).

By the year of 2016, investments in online security are expected to reach $86bn (Contu et al, 2012). Although this might seem a large sum of money, it is considered necessary since there is an increase in online risks from all over the world. Professional hackers develop malware on a global scale and on a 24/7 basis. Hackers have five objectives when spreading malware over the Internet: to infect/distribute, to steal, to persist, to control and for intelligence (Morris, 2010).

To understand the business of malware, one must understand how malware has evolved in the past twenty-five years. Malware, which includes all kinds of malicious software, was originally created to show the weaknesses of computers. The first type of malware, created in 1986, was a virus called “Brain.A. Brain.A was developed in Pakistan, by two brothers - Basit and Amjad. They wanted to prove that PC is not secure platform, so they created virus that was replicating using floppy disks” (Milošević). Even today malware is still used to check the security of machines.

The importance of mobile phones both to individuals and corporate organizations can never be underestimated. These devices are put to different uses that would have been almost impossible without them. Innovation is the order of the day when it comes to mobile phones as designers seek to meet the different needs of customers in the market. Yet these devices come with great risks particularly when it comes to corporate data that may be stored in them. The range of security threats that face mobile phones is as a result of several vulnerabilities found commonly in the devices. The vulnerabilities are partly the result of poor technical controls and partly poor user security practices. Besides basic user requirements, other security challenges facing companies with regard to the use of mobile phones include business to business spaces; business to customer spaces and business to employees as these devices are different from the common desktop classic environments.

So far, there is not an anti-malware that could scan smartphone devices and alert users. They only defense is to educate smartphone users and teach best

Malware is a serious issue that is constantly threatening our security and privacy. As discussed in class malware is malicious software and it comes in a variety of forms such as computer viruses, worms, trojan horses, ransomware, spyware, adware, scareware, and other programs. These programs can harm the user by stealing their information and infecting their devices and it does a effective job of multiplying and spreading. Since malware poses a threat to our security and privacy it is essential to provide defenses against mobile malware by increasing knowledge of the problem and how to better the mobile anti-virus programs but also how to increase awareness and warn other people and companies of potential malware and viruses heading their

A new family of apple os x and ios malware was detected by palo alto networks , named wireluker . It heralds a new era in malware across Apple’s desktop and mobile platforms . It is the second detected malware family that attacks iOS devices through OS X via USB and can infect installed iOS applications similar to a traditional virus. This malware install’s third-party applications on non-jailbroken iOS devices through enterprise provisioning. WireLurker was generally used to trojanize 467 OS X applications on the Maiyadi App Store, which was a third-party Mac application in China. In the past six months, 469 infected applications were downloaded over 356,106 times and have impacted thousands of devices.