Mikko Hypponen
Mikko Hypponen
Mikko Hermanni Hyppönenis a computer security expert and columnist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
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The target is fooled into logging into a fake bank, where they ask for his authorization code. The fake bank logs into the real bank with the one-time password and moves money around. Then it gets back to the customer, says there has been a problem and asks him to give the next code.
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This is enough to invoke the exploit and infect the machine.
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The latest variants of Bozori even remove competing viruses like Zotob from the infected machines.
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A large company would not want somebody entering their premises with an infected phone because they could easily infect the entire company's phones.
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I'm glad the guy was stupid enough to get caught. If you have to write viruses, something like the type of message is not bad.
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Foreigners like me have no privacy rights whatsoever. Yet we keep using U.S.-based services all the time, making us a legal target for gathering and storing our private information. Other countries do surveillance as well. But nobody has the global visibility that United States does.
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Alternative services would mean that there would be services available to compete with Google, Facebook, Amazon, Dropbox, Skype, etc., and they would be run by companies not based in the U.S.A. The rest of the world has simply failed in being able to compete with them, and we really should be doing better here.
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The situation on the Internet right now is so bad that if you go and buy a brand new computer and turn it on and plug it into the Internet, it will be infected by a worm within five to ten minutes,
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It all comes down to whether the code ends up being shared or not. We have not seen it out on the Internet yet.
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Not one of these is able to spread by itself, always the user of the phone has to accept installing of the virus.
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If systems administrators block these URLs at their gateways, it's not going to break anything.
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You should have mechanisms of communication, like faxes, which are obviously getting removed from offices because nobody uses them anymore. Faxes are great when e-mail doesn't work. I wouldn't be throwing them away.
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Everybody was hoping they would get the patch out before a major attack would start. Now it looks like they are succeeding in doing just that. Well done.
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There is no need to have your computer online 24 hours (a day) as a target of an attack when you are sleeping or away from your computer.