Pharming a new field
The identity theft, once a crime committed largely by family, friends and acquaintances, has increasingly in the hands of unknown armed with the latest High-Tech Tools.
In early February, Symantec Corp., anti-intrusion, the software was the last risk of an influence on mobile devices.
Symantec called “Drive-by pharming” and allows all hackers use the code to write to break the wireless router and go all Internet traffic computers, routers sites of their own creation.
“If we see another case reported, we know, it is easy to do,” said Zulfikar Ramzan, the leader of the largest researchers at Symantec Security answers in Mountain View, Calif.
Ramzan, he said, Markus Jacobson and professor at the University of Indiana discovered the new threat at the end of December, Symantec warned on February 15.
“With a single line of code that can be a hacker to redirect all traffic and wireless computing for small businesses to duplicate places, such as banks or companies or telephone companies, enter all personal data Consumers on these sites and their identity. ”
The message is not surprising that the Canadian Bankers Association, said Maura Drew-Lytle, spokesman association.
“We know anecdotally that identity theft is underway in North America,” she said. “Statistics show that 50 percent of all flights identity further, by relatives or close friends, but Advances in technology mean that the thief may still third continents away.
But while identity theft is widely recognized as an increase in crime, police, the granting of credit and credit reporting agencies are an obstacle to prevention, because reports from the old method and a penal code must be updated to Realty of the computer age, Drew-Lytle said.
“Identity theft is not a crime under the penal code and flights can be a number of different categories, such as the theft of credit cards, mortgage fraud, fraudulent access to accounts bank accounts or fraudulent phone.
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