Sentences with phrase «malicious applications on»

Malicious applications on your computer can install browser toolbars and other software that snoops on you.

«The expectation is that we will see more malicious applications on devices,» says Samir Kumar, group product planner for mobile communications business with Microsoft.

Not exact matches

«Danielle's application was done in an entirely honest, forthcoming manner and any allegation stating otherwise is nothing more than a malicious attack on a dedicated, hardworking New Yorker,» a City Council spokeswoman said.

Professor Gan Chee Lip, Director of the Temasek Laboratories @ NTU, said this study shows how devices with seemingly strong security can be attacked using a side - channel, as sensor data could be diverted by malicious applications to spy on user behaviour and help to access PIN and password information, and more.

«On Tuesday evening, the Android team was made aware of a number of malicious applications published to Android Market.

Google went on to say the company is activating a «kill switch» feature that will grant them the ability to remotely zap malicious applications without any input from the user.

According to Trend Micro, there are over one million malicious applications currently up for download on the Android market.

A malicious application might ask a router to redirect network to remote IP addresses on the Internet (instead of local IP addresses), and the router would comply.

Cybersecurity firm FireEye Inc published details about the vulnerability on its blog on Monday, saying the bug enables hackers to access devices by persuading users to install malicious applications with tainted text messages, emails and Web links.

If you're really concerned, you can always run a scan with another antivirus application to confirm nothing malicious is running on your PC.

Google doesn't vet applications before they appear on the Play Store, but they do perform automated scans to see if apps are malicious.

The malicious deployment of in - browser JavaScript - based cryptocurrency mining scripts has continued the past week, and we've seen them reach Android applications on the official Google Play Store, but we've also seen the first mass - deployment as part of a botnet of hacked WordPress sites.

However, the legitimate application can also be abused by malicious actors who install it on victim computers without the owners» knowledge, to gain unauthorized access to their machines.

arstechnica.com - A recent malware campaign that attempted to install a resource - draining currency miner on more than 400,000 computers in 12 hours was caused by a malicious backdoor that was sneaked into a BitTorrent application called Mediaget, a Microsoft researcher said Tuesday.