Applied Network Security

Your defence

• Today, Trojans can be spread by browser drive-bys, where the program is downloaded in the background when you simply visit a web site that's rigged.
• A shellcode can run a Trojan that downloads additional payload code over HTTP through various forms of backdoors, bots, spyware, and other Trojan programs.
• Phishing e-mails are used for manipulating users to visit infected websites, click on malicious links (activating the payload), or entering credentials for harvesting.
• Black hat hackers can also exploit security weaknesses on sites and then piggyback their Trojans onto legitimate software to be downloaded by trusting consumers. Cyber criminals never stop developing new methods to steal identities and commit fraud.
• There are steps ...