Sentences with phrase «by malicious applications»

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.

However, it seems that for the issue of device security to be truly taken seriously we may need for a particularly nasty security event to happen — with perhaps legions of Android devices taken over by a malicious application.

Not exact matches

Once installed, web application firewall provides complete peace of mind, by blocking all hacking attempts and also filtering out other types of unwanted traffic, like spammers and malicious bots.

Once the vulnerability became public, the Taiwan based manufacturer of smartphones quickly changed its tune and issued a statement to popular Engadget blog which acknowledged the security hole saying «that while this HTC software itself does no harm to customers» data, there is a vulnerability that could potentially be exploited by a malicious third - party application.»

Within the response, the company confirmed that there were 58 malicious applications total, and that they were indeed downloaded by approximately 260,000 devices before Google was able to remove them from the store.

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.

The application notes each block's cryptographic hash value as an attractive feature, stating that the fact that a blockchain can not be modified by malicious actors acts as an effective security function in protecting asset ownership data.

As pointed out by Check Point, the discovery of a new strain of malicious software in the official Google Play Store really goes to show that users should be cautious about downloading applications even when they come from an official source.

iOS bug enables hackers to access devices by persuading users to install malicious applications.

Additionally, by targeting SSO applications, malicious actors hope to maximize access to intellectual property during a successful... (continued)

Alerted through Google by Trend - Micro, the bug can only get into your Android device by means of a malicious application download or by a malformed MKV file.

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.