Cisco launches iPhone security app

Cisco has pushed out a new iPhone application that helps IT managers to respond to newly-detected security threats by the pocket of their pants.

The Cisco 'SIO To Go iPhone' application beams in data from the company's Security Intelligence Operations (SIO) to show a customizable menagerie of security information that could potentially help defend a business network. There are real-time alerts and threat mitigation solutions which come from sources that include more than 700,000 Cisco security devices, the company's historical threat database, 3,300 IPS signatures, and over 600 third-party threat-intelligence sources.


The application also has the ability to check a site or server's 'reputation' powered by IronPort - which shows if it's been attacked by a virus over the past 24 hours. It also includes links to Cisco's security blog, press releases, and Twitter feeds.

Fake online anti-virus bug computer user

For users seeking to quarantine their computers by using anti-virus software made available online, fake anti-virus (FAV) is a growing, invisible threat. While it's much easier to identify a malicious software code received through a spam mail, or other suspicious attachments, FAVs are making it difficult for users to escape from them, because such 'pop ups' usually offer to remove viruses from an 'infected' computer.


"Programmers will create websites with almost any major event like Obama's swearing in, Michael Jackson's death, major terrorist attacks, or any natural phenomenon including solar eclipse," said Abhinav Karnwal, Product Marketing Manager at Trend Micro an anti-virus solutions provider. "They will even make up events like the meteor shower that was a hoax and ensure their websites figure within the first two pages of a search result. When one clicks on any of these links he may be forced to download these FAVs," he added.

Experts tracking cyber crime say these FAVs can cost anywhere between Rs. 500 and Rs. 6,000, with malicious code writers making around $10,000 on a good day, reports Economic Times. According to computer security firm PandaLabs, only 1,000 samples of FAVs were reported during the first quarter of last year. However, by the second quarter of this year, such instances have reached 3,74,000.

Malware or malicious software has been growing exponentially during the past few years. Last year, over 1.5 million attacks were detected by security solutions firm McAfee, and the number has already hit 1.2 million during the first half ending June this year.

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