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1/3 of consumers willing to ditch their friends for their smartphone — study

Daniel Morial

A psychological study held by Kaspersky found out that a third of consumers owning a smartphone find their device more important than their friends.

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In an experiment conducted by the universities of Würzburg and Nottingham Trent, on behalf of Kaspersky Lab, participants were asked to rate various objects and people in their lives in order of importance and 37.4% of them rated the smartphone as more, or equally, important than close real-life friends while 29.4% and 21.2% said that smartphones are more, or equally, important than parents and partners, respectively.

16.7%, on the other hand, rated their mobile device in the highest importance category but only 1.1% said that it’s more important than anything else.

The experiment was done by asking participants to position images of various people and objects in their lives, in relation to themselves on a diagram of a chessboard. Generally, family, friends, and even pets were placed closer than smartphones although colleagues in everyday work or study were placed far behind.

What’s alarming, despite giving their smartphones more importance above else, about 93% easily gave away the PIN or passcode of their device. Obviously, this puts their personal info and files in potential danger.

How about you? Do you value your smartphone over your family, friends, and colleagues? And would you easily give away your smartphone PIN when asked?

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1/3 of consumers willing to ditch their friends for their smartphone — study

Daniel Morial

A psychological study held by Kaspersky found out that a third of consumers owning a smartphone find their device more important than their friends.

KasperskyLab-athirdofpeople

In an experiment conducted by the universities of Würzburg and Nottingham Trent, on behalf of Kaspersky Lab, participants were asked to rate various objects and people in their lives in order of importance and 37.4% of them rated the smartphone as more, or equally, important than close real-life friends while 29.4% and 21.2% said that smartphones are more, or equally, important than parents and partners, respectively.

16.7%, on the other hand, rated their mobile device in the highest importance category but only 1.1% said that it’s more important than anything else.

The experiment was done by asking participants to position images of various people and objects in their lives, in relation to themselves on a diagram of a chessboard. Generally, family, friends, and even pets were placed closer than smartphones although colleagues in everyday work or study were placed far behind.

What’s alarming, despite giving their smartphones more importance above else, about 93% easily gave away the PIN or passcode of their device. Obviously, this puts their personal info and files in potential danger.

How about you? Do you value your smartphone over your family, friends, and colleagues? And would you easily give away your smartphone PIN when asked?

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Kaspersky Lab identifies malware used to steal money from ATMs

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Kaspersky Lab, in collaboration with the Interpol, has conducted an investigation regarding a new malware called Tyupkin that cyber-criminal uses to steal cash from affected automated teller machines (ATM) in Asia, Europe and Latin America.

In their forensic investigation, Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team mentioned that the malware was installed on an ATM using a bootable CD.

After successfully infecting an ATM, the malware silently sits inside the machine waiting for a specific command, at a specific time and day of the week (Sunday and Monday nights), from one of the members of the gang which will display the amount cash in all of the cassettes.

From there, the robbers select which cassette to steal from and the ATM will dispense forty (40) banknotes at a time out of that cassette.

“We strongly advise banks to review the physical security of their ATMs and network infrastructure and consider investing in quality security solutions,”

– Vicente Diaz, Principal Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team

In line with the investigation, the anti-virus provider gives out a few tips on how to mitigate the risk:

• Review the physical security of their ATMs and consider investing in quality security solutions.
• Replace all locks and master keys on the upper hood of the ATM machines and ditch the defaults provided by the manufacturer.
• Install an alarm and ensure it is in good working order. The cyber-criminals behind Tyupkin only infected ATMs that had no security alarm installed.
• Change the default BIOS password.
• Ensure the machines have up-to-date antivirus protection
• For advice on how to verify that your ATMs are not currently infected, please contact Kaspersky at intelreports@kaspersky.com. To make a full scan of the ATM’s system and delete the backdoor, please use the free Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool (available to download here).

Further information about the Tyupkin malware can be found on this link.

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