Network security: user awareness remains the Achilles heel of-hackers, cyber crime-IT information
With the increase in Internet security and network security industry has become a fast-growing industry. According to the study report of the company's Markets and Markets, the network security industry's annual growth rate of more than 10% by 2021, it will be an extra 200 billion-dollar industry. However, for Internet users, it is not good news. People need more knowledge of computer security, but most people are not interested in, or lack of technical capacity.
More recently, in Los Angeles on the Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences, the General Assembly, many security experts said the degree of network security problem has become very serious if we do not take action, our economy will suffer long-term damage.
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Ransomware is becoming the first choice for cyber criminals. Criminal data encrypted on the user's computer, so that it becomes inaccessible and then extort money to the user. If the user does not pay on time, computer files were deleted. According to research firm survey of Malwarebytes, 60% of malicious software on the Internet are extortion software.
"In the past few years, the attacker realize that they don't have sophisticated hacker techniques – cheat password, into accounts, steal information, and then on the Internet black market sales data – on the contrary, they could use simpler techniques, direct attacks on individuals or companies and put them as an ATM machine," enterprise security firms Red Canary CEO Brian Beyer says.
According to Symantec's data, users will need to pay the ransom is also increasing, in 2015, ransoms averaging $ 300, and in 2016, ransom has been increased to $ 679. Last year, Ransomware CryptoWall3 criminals earned $ 325 million. If the user backup data in a timely manner, then blackmailing software is very easy to overlook, but the problem is, about 1/3 of computer users never backed up the data, while others are only occasionally backup data. Even people who routinely back up the data, will also feel the recovery data is trouble.
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Network security issue is that many users lack of safety awareness. At the Black Hat Conference, Germany de: Erlangen-Nuremberg University researchers Zinaida Benenson showed a survey on malicious links. He found that 1/5 people will click on strange links in the email, and 2/5 of people will click on links to social networks. Are inspired by curiosity, tech-savvy users are hard to resist the urge to click on.
In another study, Elie Bursztein Google security team member to see if people will use the new USB flash drives. Then, his team different 300 USB flash drive to a University place. The result, 98% u, being picked up, while more than half, the USB flash drive into your computer, view the file.
Security company if you ask consumers how to safeguard their network security, you'll get the same advice: use better passwords, software updates, backups, and so on. However, many consumers never do these things, and few people will do everything, and often do so.
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Security consulting firm Cambridge Global Advisors CEO Jake Braun said, big technology companies, like Google, Facebook, Apple and so on, is to encrypt the data and information exchange. This is a big step to the right side. He is optimistic, the younger generation will require ISPs to provide a more secure product. However, network security is so broad that the Government intervention has become necessary.
"I think consumers should give officials more pressure, they put more money into tracking the subjects of cyber criminals," Braun said, "for example, homeland security investigations Department investigates various types of cyber-crime (particularly child pornography and online trafficking against innocent children), but the serious shortfall in the funding of the sector. ”
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网络安全：用户意识仍是阿喀琉斯之踵 - 黑客,网络犯罪 - IT资讯
随着互联网安全问题的增多，网络安全行业成了一个快速发展的行业。根据研究公司Markets and Markets的报告，网络安全行业的年增长率超过了10%，到2021年，它将是一个超2000亿美元的大产业。不过，对于互联网用户来说，这并不是什么好消息。人们需要更多的计算机安全知识，但是，大多数人对此并无兴趣，或者缺乏相应的技术能力。
最近，在洛杉矶的黑帽大会和Defcon黑客大会上，许多安全技术专家表示，网络安全问题已经达到非常严重的程度，如果再不采取行动，我们的经济会遭受长期损害。
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勒索软件正在成为网络犯罪分子的首选。犯罪分子把用户电脑上的数据加密，使其变得不可访问，然后向用户勒索钱财。如果用户不按时付款，电脑里的文件就被删除了。根据研究公司Malwarebytes的调查，目前网络上60%的恶意软件都是勒索软件。
“在过去的几年里，攻击者意识到，他们可以不用复杂的黑客手法——骗取密码、攻入账户、窃取信息，然后在互联网黑市上销售数据——相反，他们可以用更简单的手法，直接攻击个人或者公司，把他们当做ATM机，”企业安全公司Red Canary的CEO Brian Beyer说。
据Symantec的数据，用户需要交纳的赎金也在增加，2015年时候，赎金平均300美元，而2016年，赎金已增长为679美元。去年，使用勒索软件CryptoWall3的犯罪分子赚取了3.25亿美元。如果用户及时备份数据，那么，勒索软件是很容易忽视的，问题在于，大约1/3的电脑用户从不备份数据，而其他人也只是偶尔备份数据。即使经常备份数据的人，也会觉得恢复数据是件麻烦事。
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网络安全的问题在于，许多用户缺乏必要的安全意识。在黑帽大会上，德国埃尔朗根-纽伦堡大学的研究员Zinaida Benenson展示了一项关于恶意链接的调查。他发现，1/5的人会点击陌生电子邮件里的链接，而2/5的人会点击社交网络的链接。受好奇心的鼓动，精通技术的用户也难以拒绝点击的冲动。
另一项研究中，Google安全团队的成员Elie Bursztein想看看人们是否会使用陌生U盘。于是，他的团队把300只U盘放到某大学的不同地点。结果，98%的U盘被人拾取，而超过一半的人把U盘插入电脑，查看其中的文件。
如果你询问安全公司，消费者如何维护自己的网络安全，你会得到同样的建议：使用更好的密码、更新软件、备份数据等等。但是，许多消费者从来不做这些事情，而且，很少人会把所有事情都做到，而且经常那么做。
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安全咨询公司Cambridge Global Advisors的CEO Jake Braun说，目前大型科技公司，如Google、Facebook、苹果等，都在对数据和信息交流进行加密。这是向正确方面迈出的一大步。他乐观地认为，年轻一代人会要求互联网公司提供更加安全的产品。不过，网络安全问题是如此广泛，以至于政府介入成了必要之事。
“我觉得，消费者应该给予官员们更大的压力，让他们把更多资金投入追踪网络犯罪分子的调查项目中，”Braun说，“例如，国土安全部的调查部门会调查多种类型的网络犯罪（特别儿童色情片以及针对无辜儿童的在线人口贩卖），但是，那个部门的资金投入严重不足。”
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