2.3 Models of Influence of Software Implants on Computers …
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Let us consider them in detail.
2.3.4.2 Internet
The Internet is unique due to the fact that it doesn’t belong to anyone and doesn’t
have any territorial borders. This contributes a lot to the development of numerous
websites and information exchange. Today, any person can get access to the data
stored on the Internet or create their own web resource.
However, the same features of the global web allow intruders to commit crimes
on the Internet, at the same time making their detection and punishment harder.
Intruders post viruses and other malware on web resources, disguising them as
useful and free software. Moreover, the scripts that are launched automatically during
opening of a web page can perform malicious actions on your PC, including altering
the system register, stealing personal data, and installing malware.
Using network technologies, intruder implements attacks on remote private
computers and company servers. Such attacks can result in failures of resources,
provision of full access to the resource, and the information stored in it; in this case,
the information is published on the Internet, where the intruder can access it.
Due to the emergence of credit cards, e-money, and the possibility to use them
through the Internet (Internet shops, auctions, personal pages of banks, etc.), e-crimes
have become one of the most popular types of crime.
Intranet is an internal network specially designed to control information inside
the company or, for example, a private home network. Intranet is the unified space
for storage, exchange, and access to the information for all computers in the network.
Thus, if any of the network computers is infected, other computers are exposed to a
great risk of infection. In order to prevent such situations, it is necessary to protect
not only the network perimeter but each separate computer as well.
The intruder can obtain information only if they have access to this local network,
since the installed implant transfers information to local network.
2.3.4.3 E-mail
The presence of postal application nearly on nearly every computer as well as the
fact that malware programs fully use the contents of electronic address books to
identify new victims ensure favorable conditions for the distribution of malware.
The user of an infected computer unknowingly sends infected letters to addressees,
who in turn send new infected letters, and so on. Common are the cases when an
infected document file due to lack of attention ends up in the commercial info mailing
lists of a large company. In this case, hundreds or even thousands of subscribers of
such mailings become victims and subsequently mail the infected files to dozens of
thousands of their subscribers.
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Let us consider them in detail.
2.3.4.2 Internet
The Internet is unique due to the fact that it doesn’t belong to anyone and doesn’t
have any territorial borders. This contributes a lot to the development of numerous
websites and information exchange. Today, any person can get access to the data
stored on the Internet or create their own web resource.
However, the same features of the global web allow intruders to commit crimes
on the Internet, at the same time making their detection and punishment harder.
Intruders post viruses and other malware on web resources, disguising them as
useful and free software. Moreover, the scripts that are launched automatically during
opening of a web page can perform malicious actions on your PC, including altering
the system register, stealing personal data, and installing malware.
Using network technologies, intruder implements attacks on remote private
computers and company servers. Such attacks can result in failures of resources,
provision of full access to the resource, and the information stored in it; in this case,
the information is published on the Internet, where the intruder can access it.
Due to the emergence of credit cards, e-money, and the possibility to use them
through the Internet (Internet shops, auctions, personal pages of banks, etc.), e-crimes
have become one of the most popular types of crime.
Intranet is an internal network specially designed to control information inside
the company or, for example, a private home network. Intranet is the unified space
for storage, exchange, and access to the information for all computers in the network.
Thus, if any of the network computers is infected, other computers are exposed to a
great risk of infection. In order to prevent such situations, it is necessary to protect
not only the network perimeter but each separate computer as well.
The intruder can obtain information only if they have access to this local network,
since the installed implant transfers information to local network.
2.3.4.3 E-mail
The presence of postal application nearly on nearly every computer as well as the
fact that malware programs fully use the contents of electronic address books to
identify new victims ensure favorable conditions for the distribution of malware.
The user of an infected computer unknowingly sends infected letters to addressees,
who in turn send new infected letters, and so on. Common are the cases when an
infected document file due to lack of attention ends up in the commercial info mailing
lists of a large company. In this case, hundreds or even thousands of subscribers of
such mailings become victims and subsequently mail the infected files to dozens of
thousands of their subscribers.