Safekaznet project has entered the social initiatives competition organized by “Reach for Change”. The creation of a website directed at searching for missing kids on the territory of Kazakhstan became the idea that has been represented on the competition. The idea arises from the fact that nowadays there is a database in our country which includes a few thousand of missing adolescents and young children. With the creation of the website, which will include photos and information about these children, members of civil society will be able to follow the information and quickly report if they have any data about a missing child. In addition, it is planned to implement the technology of the photo creation that allows to understand how a child may look like at the moment. This is especially actual for cases dealing with children who have gone missing for a long time.

Reach for Change is a non-profit organization founded by the group of companies Kinnevik. It aims to improve the quality of life of children and adolescents and observance of their rights. The Fund searches for and supports individuals, companies and organizations whose activities are aimed at improving the lives of children and adolescents. The Fund holds an annual competition for social entrepreneurs in order to find interesting ideas and choose one of the potentially successful ones.

Through information campaigns, Reach for Change increases the level of public awareness and promotes social entrepreneurship as the best tool for the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Press service of the “Internet Association of Kazakhstan”, ULE

Kaspersky Lab specialists have discovered a wide network for distribution of a range of dangerous software named Koler. This software was aimed at Android devices as well as users’ personal computers. Potential victims were lured by the promise of pornographic content, but risked to get their devices infected with blocker-software. At the screen of the blocked devices was shown an allegedly official message from the police and a demand to pay a fine from 100 to 300 dollars for browsing pornographic materials. Thanks to the type of websites which the victims tried to browse this message had a powerful psychological effect.

Despite the fact that the blocker-software was very basic and could only block the window, the specialists note that the perpetrators used different texts and symbols of law enforcement agencies for 30 different countries of Europe, North and Latin America and Australia. Further investigation lead to discovery of a developed and organized network which ensured the distribution of harmful software.

Users were lured by means if 48 pornographic websites. From there the requests were redirected to the centre of redistribution of traffic system and then victims found themselves on one of many servers which distributed this harmful software. Due to the fact that the viruses were aimed at Android devices as well as personal computers so for each target there was a separate sub-network which distributed similar blockers. According to the statistics received by Kaspersky Lab specialists just on one of the sub-networks with mobile harmful software were redirected more than 170 thousands users. At the moment the growth has decreased – on the 23th of July perpetrators gradually began to close the network and send through the main server deinstallation commands to the infected devices.

«In the wake of the discovered blocker-software we managed to discover not only a major infrastructure of its distribution but also a range of new harmful software for Android, which is not used by perpetrators just yet. Perhaps they are planning to widen their campaign later on. The ease with which perpetrators used the automatised systems and managed to unleash an entire network for the distribution of software may become a bad example which in the future harm many more users in other countries. We have to note that the method of distribution used by perpetrators is quite tricky, but the software itself is rather basic and can be blocked by an anti-virus software of the Internet Security spectum» – noted Vincente Dias, leading expert of Kaspersky Lab.

Source: Kaspersky Lab

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Perpetrators spread the banking Trojan as an file for installation of WhatsApp mobile messenger onto a user’s PC, says Kaspersky Lab in its blog.

According to the message, perpetrators have organized new spam campaign sent via email, which informs that the mobile messenger WhatsApp is now available for PC. However, those who try to install this application, in reality downloads banking Trojan.

Experts of the Kaspersky Las have received the message in Portuguese, which says that “finally WhatsApp is available for PC and that the user already has 11 invitations from his friends”. If users press the link for downloading, they are redirected to the hacked server located in Turkey and then forwarded to the cloud service called Hightail (former Yousendit), where they are offered to download the Trojan, which looks like 64-bit installation file.

In reality this is a standard 32-bit application, which is relatively easily detected by antivirus products. Once the application is launched it downloads a new banking Trojan. This harmful software is downloaded from the server located in Brazil and it is rarely detected by the anivirus software – 3 out of 49 according to the VirusTotal scale. Trojan’s icon makes it look like an mp3 file and many users may click on it. Moreover, it weights 2.5 megabytes.

In order to make the analysis of the harmful program harder, special features are added to the Trojan. In addition, the program itself is written in Delphi.

After the launch the Trojan is sending a report to the console owned by the criminals to show the contamination statistics. The stolen information is seте via the local port 1157, when it is opened. In addition, the harmful software loads other viruses onto the PC.

Source: RIA Novosti

When there is a discussion about children on the Internet, the general availability of the net becomes not only the source of useful information and entertainment, but also threats – this can be seen from the results of the study carried out by Kaspersky Lab in collaboration with the analytical agency B2B International.

More than one third (36%) of parents in Russia admit that their children faced risks on the Internet. 20% them encountered with undesirable content and 5% communicated with strangers. Generally 79% of adults agree that effective tools for protection of children in the Internet would have been very useful and necessary. However, according to the research moms and dads are not in a hurry to use these technologies: every fifth parent in Russia does not take any action towards protecting their children. In addition, 18% of parents allow their children to use phones or tablets without any supervision.

Those parents, who have decided to protect their children, choose various protective methods. 39% of parents limit the time their child is allowed to spend using the Internet, whereas 30% regularly check browsing history. At the same time only 26% of parents use protective software which has the option of parental control. The majority do not even think that uncontrolled internet surfing may have multiple consequences that are not limited to getting viruses. For example, a child can pay services using their parents’ credit card or delete some important documents and files.

«Without having enough experience in working with computers and mobile devices, children unintentionally make mistakes which their parents have to pay for. 17% of questioned moms and dads in Russia had financial losses or lost important documents because of their children’s answers» – says Konstantin Ignatiyev, the head of the web content analysis group of Kaspersky Lab.

To ensure protection of children on the Internet “Kaspersky Lab” has devised a Parental Control module that is available for all devices. Thanks to this module users can block websites with undesirable content, impose restrictions onto sharing of personal data, limit the time a child spends using a computeк etc.

Source: Kaspersky Lab

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The project of creation of the new .ДЕТИ domain is almost at its end. On Wednesday, the 20^th of November, at the 48^th International ICANN conference signing of the contract between the Razumniy Internet Foundation and ICANN took place.

The next stage after the signing of the contract with ICANN will be testing of technical infrastructure, which would be the foundation of the new children’s domain. The registry of domain names, DNS-infrastructure and connectivity channels will be tested. It is planned for testing to be started in December 2013.

In the nearest future the concept of the rules for registration of the .ДЕТИ domain will be adopted. It has already been through the public discussions and has been approved by the Foundation management and at the moment it awaits comments from the users.

In addition, the process of accreditation of the registrars for the children’s domain is about to start.

Source: «Razumniy Internet» Foundation

Regulations of protection of children from the information containing erotic and pornographic images should be imposed on information products which have particular historical, artistic or other cultural value for the society. This has been mentioned in the project of the Concept of children’s information security published by Roscomnadzor.

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Google has begun an active campaign aimed at elimination of child sexual abuse images and introduced automatic system for recognition and blocking of such materials, announced the chairman of board of directors Eric Schmidt to the British Daily Mail.

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According to the Dr.Web report web resources that offer free online music, movies or games may also distribute harmful software called Trojan.Lyrics.

This software shows annoying advertising and opens in the browser window suspicious web sites without the owner’s knowledge.

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