Internet crime to hit homes hard
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Home computer users are now the favourite targets of hi-tech criminals, reveals research.
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An inquiry into child safety on the internet is likely to look at several suicides by young people in south Wales.
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Spyware is rife and virus infection commonplace yet many home users reckon they are safe from online threats. An AOL/National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) Online Safety Study - conducted by technical experts
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Online criminals looking for new areas to attack in the next few years will find green fields in the Internet infrastructure and the digital home, researchers with McAfee Inc.&#39;s AVERT labs said Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON Oct 25, 2004 - Internet users at home are not nearly as safe online as they believe, according to a nationwide inspection by researchers.
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Several incidents highlight the dangers life online presents to preserving your privacy.
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Companies, governments, and individuals are increasingly vulnerable to Internet attacks by terrorists and hackers.
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The numbers of malicious programs circulating online is reaching 'epidemic' levels, say experts.
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JupiterResearch,  a leading authority on the impact of the Internet and emerging consumer  technologies on business, predicts that 70 percent of US homes --  some 86 million households -- will have  broadband Internet access by 2012.
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Criminals controlling millions of PCs could threaten the internet, experts at the World Economic Forum warn.
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(InfoWorld) - Online criminals looking for new areas to attack in the next few years will find green fields in the Internet infrastructure and the digital home, researchers with McAfee's Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team (AVERT) labs said Tuesday. McAfee offered its take on the top security trends for 2007, at a press event in San Francisco, saying that well-known problemsÂ such asÂ phishing, spam, bots, and rootkits are on the rise. But in the years ahead, new areas will be top concerns, said Craig Schmugar, virus research manager at McAfee's AVERT labs. "In the short term, it will be the infrastructure side of things," he said. "In the long term, it will be digital entertainment." Schmugar said that the recent flaw in Windows DNS servers, which was exploited in a small number of online attacks, is a good example of things to come. These servers are a critical part of the Internet's infrastructure, used to convert the domain names users type into their browsers into the IP addresses that identify computers on the Internet. Microsoft patched the DNS flaw in April, shortly after the attacks began. McAfee also expects to see hackers focus more on Wi-Fi attacks as PC users become accustomed to connecting to wireless networks wherever they go. "We haven't heard of any real-world attacks, but that's likely to become a bigger issue, especially with municipal Wi-Fi," Schmugar said. Some security experts have warned that public Wi-Fi could be used to set up "man-in-the middle" attacks, where a criminal sets up a malicious wireless network and then intercepts online communication between the victims and any of the Internet servers they try to reach. Researcher Christopher Soghoian recently demonstrated how such an attack could beÂ used to install malicious software on a Firefox browser. And the digital home will eventually attract home invaders too, Schmugar predicted. As consumers get more comfortable downloading and playing movies and games on home entertainment computers, that may also give hackers a new way to attack, he said. McAfee says that video on the Web is already being hit with attacks. In March, the company reported that the MySpace page for the French band Mamasaid had been infected and was downloading malicious code hidden in a QuickTime file.
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Cyber criminals could soon be mounting sophisticated phishing attacks that are hard to detect warn experts.
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WASHINGTON - Internet users at home are not nearly as safe online as they believe, according to a nationwide inspection by researchers.
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Plus: Spammers go to jail, and laptops get LED backlights.
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Tech-savvy criminals increasingly are using large networks of computers to spread viruses, send spam and steal sensitive information, according to a new Internet threat report scheduled to be released today.
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The home secretary is to set out plans to crack down on those who "groom" people for extremism via the internet.
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By James Derk Scripps Howard News Service  If you weren't worried enough about the security of your home computer and network, it may be time to step it up.