Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Polish players one of the groups most vulnerable to hacker attacks - BBC News

Each day Internet users are bombarded by all sorts of hackers and cyber criminals.

 Kaspersky / AFP

The latest report from Kaspersky Lab (creators of Kaspersky anti-virus program) that the players are one of the most vulnerable groups. Especially in Poland. According to data from Kaspersky Lab shows that in the past year, the players fell victim to an average of 34,000 attacks per day, and in the last twelve months have been as many as 11.7 million.

of about 4.6 million were related to malware directly through a broadcast games. And though this PC is still the most vulnerable hackers platform, security analysts point out that the purpose are also holders of the next-gene – One Xbox and PlayStation 4

During the game most players should be careful while Minecraft, GTA V, and all sorts of chain stores – it’s because these productions are mostly taken for wallpaper by cybercriminals. It also turns out that it was the Polish players are the most vulnerable.

This year, our users were victims of 127,510 attacks – this is our country ranks second in Europe, behind Spain with a score of 138,790 and against Italians (75,080). Is there a way to protect against intruders?

need to take care of a unique password changed regularly and do not trust everything that we see on the internet – do not open suspicious messages or click on links from untrusted users.

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