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The Scottish Improvement Service, which runs the on behalf of Scottish Government has signed contracts with several technology providers to help develop the platform. This includes partnering with Yoti, a digital identity platform, which it will roll out to citizens during a pathfinder pilot. The smartphone app allows citizens to prove their age and entitlement online and in person, both in relation to public services, but also as proof of ID on a night out or when buying age-restricted products. Signing up to the app, citizens simply take a selfie and add an ID document with their smartphone, which is then transformed into a digital identity.

Sarah Gadsden, the Improvement Service’s interim CEO, said she anticipated that smartphone ownership will continue to grow. “As technology evolves and mobile usage increases, we’re committed to maximise the use of secure mobile and digital technology to deliver information and services to citizen,” she added. Scotland is also due to launch a six-to-nine-months alpha phase of its in September. The aim of the alpha phase is to create a prototype of an identity assurance platform, which can then be tested with users.

In its May meeting, Scotland’s online identity assurance programme board said although the myaccount service already has a large potential number of users, it has low levels of assurance, because it wasn’t created to be a digital identity service. As well as myaccount, the Improvement Services runs a series of public digital services across Scotland such as the Parents Portal and the Data Hub.

The Improvement Service has also signed a contract with Edinburgh-based Wallet.Services to look at potential opportunities and applications for in delivering public services. “In line with our latest business plan commitments, we continue to look for practical and creative approaches to supporting councils and partners through challenging times and help people manage their relationship with government. We see significant potential and benefits from innovating using emerging technologies such as blockchain,” Gadsden said.

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The Improvement Service is also going for a cloud-first approach, signing a contract with cloud solutions company Brightsolid to migrate its services onto the cloud. Also won a contract with the Improvement Service and will act as its technology partner for the organisation’s core applications and services.

I don’t disagree that pirated software downloads are a major source for infection. However, does that mean the majority of such downloads are infected? I’ll tell you why I ask this: I have a friend who was quite involved in the community that cracks software and packages the software and cracks together and uploads them to torrent networks.

I’ve had stuff I downloaded that was flagged (yes, I live dangerously sometimes), usually just the crack. And when I asked him about if, he said that most cracks show up as malware, but they’re really not.

It’s the heuristic detection kicking in because cracks do malware-like behaviour (changing executable files). Now I realize in individual cases, it’s probably impossible to know the difference but I’ve wondered if anybody has studied just how much of the pirated programs really is malware. And I don’t mean the obvious stuff. Like when you download a program that you know is supposed to be several hundred megabytes and yet the download link says 12 MB (just to toss a number out there). @Alfre Huger Thank you for sharing your insight, Al. I suspect the statistics might be even worse with a more general sample (not only users of Immunet).

For a start, there are plenty not even having a (functional) antivirus installed, expired licenses, outdated versions, etc. I was wondering what are the reasons Immunet and most antivirus vendors convict software cracks even there is no indication of being malware.

Is it because there are agreements with other vendors in the industry? A heuristic engine too aggressive? A decision based on the observation is more likely a (known) software crack to be tainted by infection? A combination of the above?

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A completely different reason? I hope you can let us know. Interesting post. That confirms what I’ve suspected about software cracks. When I was in grad school a decade ago, I was pretty indiscriminate about downloading cracks. I still had a few of those files hanging around on various backups. I was looking for some files recently and when I opened the folders on my current machine, there were a handful of virus/ malware files detected.

My suspicion is that when I downloaded those, they were ahead of the antivirus signature files, but now they are found by regular scans. I guess one takeaway from this is that even if the crack you download now seems clean in a virus scan, it may just be that the virus in it is not yet detected. I have done what you describe several times. It always comes out clean.

AV detects the compression used in the EXE file and flags it as a virus. Just for the sake of argument. Try downloading a PC demo from (pick one from the 4K category) and it will be flagged as a virus, simply due to the EXE packer used ( called crinkler ) Then try submitting one or several of the detected files to review and I guarantee you it will come back with a clean bill of health. The funny thing is, that even if you submit hundreds of EXE files packed with crinkler and they all comes back clean.

The AV will still detect crinkler packed EXE files as a virus. Makes you wonder how effective AV really is. I have had the most part of 7 years of carefully collected demos, destroyed by a well known AV, simply because it detected the crinkler packed EXE files as a virus. This is good advice, Brian, and is true that most executables found on P2P networks, Binary news servers and alike are in fact trojans or tainted with viruses. But I would note that in my opinion many of the cracks begin by being “genuine”, released by various groups or “scenes” purely to brag their “skillz” and dis rival groups.

However, for every genuine crack miscreants of the lowest kind will soon post/spread thousands of copies of trojans/downloaders (with the same name/charcteristics as the original crack). Since MD5 checksums are not that popular in such circles, is hard even for experienced “downloaders” to separate wheat from worse than chaff. The bottom line is it doesn’t really “pay” to use pirated software anymore, not only because of the risks involved and the effort/time spent to find a non-infected crack, but mostly because you can find now (with some notable exceptions and excluding most games) surprisingly good, functional, free opensource software for almost any function. I did a blog post a couple of years back that looked at the prevalence of different “fake warez” malware. (Warez, in this case, being any sort of big download a user might be looking for.) Note that this was not based on heuristic data, so it has no bearing on the argument that maybe AV heuristics were throwing a False Positive based on the crack’s behavior. This was based on a known malware network that was simply.pretending.

to be something else to serve its malicious downloads. (The payloads didn’t change, only the filename, which is what I based my stats on.) To sum up, about 2/3 of the malware downloads were impersonating Porn movies, and about 1/3 were purported “cracks”. I find the results interesting and I don’t dispute them. What I really wonder though, and surely somebody must’ve collected this data is how much of all these downloads are malware, not how much of malware came from downloads, two very different questions. I see a lot of people saying that if you play with pirated downloads then you’re likely to get stung.

But that also goes for visiting websites, accepting email attachments and really, downloading anything. If you do any of those things you have a chance of getting a piece of malware if you don’t know what you’re doing. But how much of these downloads, not just pirated software, btw, but tv shows and movies are infected or are packaged with malware? The shows often include a “codecs” install which is, in fact, malware. I suspect that nobody studies this because no software company wants to know the answer since if the amount is very small, people may pirate more. Or perhaps they’ve studied it and already come to these conclusions and aren’t publishing them for the same reason.

I believe this situation is an example of cost versus convenience or the other way around. Cracking software programs is a way to defer cost. People may find it convenient to be able to crack software after downloading it for it to put to use at no cost as they initially think. However, the infection of malware may become a cost in the long term, prompting users to spend or even resort to ends that eventually put them to inconvenience.

Even if acquiring a software program legally, is it 100% safe? Although there is the statistics showing the less likelihood for “warez” infection from legal downloads, there is still a room where users may find themselves doubtful if the software program if it integrates malware in a cloak. Maybe, it is the matter of choosing wisely and heeding credible reviews.

Online users should be vigilant before making downloads. Piracy can really kill and this extends to PC. Ive known a few friends who is the past swore by software cracks for their programs.I ran into a few issues of said software not working properly and bought the retail version.Well what do you know it worked properly the way i expected it. For the last 10 years ive used purchased software and they all still work as expected.Too bad i cant say the same for cracked software.The cracks eventually get patched and stop working for most software,not all though. As for those friends?They buy their software now,:P! Well, until software prices are regulated and affordable for teens and those in lower financial brackets, many crack softwares will be used since it’s the only way that some people are cabable of using it. Many times, the work i’ve seen completed by youths with cracked software is amazing, and many of these youths would have never had the chance to express themselves and learn of their talent and skills if they waited to purchase softwares ranging from 600 to 2500 dollars.

Illegal, risky but well worth it for many youths, who would never have such a chance without cracked software.