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Children Used To Steal Parents' Data

Barence writes "PC Pro's Davey Winder has revealed how pre-school children are being targeted by data thieves. Security vendors have uncovered a bunch of Flash-based games, colorful and attractive to young kids, which came complete with a remote access trojan. The trojan is usually installed behind a button to download more free games, but BitDefender even found one painting application where the very act of swiping the paintbrush over an online pet to change the color of the virtual animal was enough to trigger redirection to an infected site."

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  1. Re:True that by mosschops · · Score: 5, Informative

    Settings -> General -> Restrictions -> Require Password -> Immediately

    No more 15 minute password caching :)