Joe Stewart, director of malware research with security vendor SecureWorks have recently reported some of the amazing facts about what an inteligent hacker and poor security systems in your PC can cause. Yes as the title suggests one of the Trojan malware have managed to receive password of so many people that if you convert the them in bytes the data is equivalent to 50 GB. According to article, they have managed to get into the PC of one of the hotel chains and after that they have managed to use Microsoft administration tool to spread their malicious software throughout the network.
Report also suggest that not only the hotels but this trojan is being used to break into the banking and brokerage sector and can cause a big damage to these industries.
Advice is as yesterday said when Sony playstation hacke few days back, no one is safe on internet. You require not only the security tools installed on your PC but also requires a great computing logic to avaid these kind of trojans entering into your system.
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