CALIFORNIA - Although not very popular, but the technology Quick Response (QR) Codes enough to help the consumer to obtain information on the products they consume.
As quoted from the Mobile-Ent, Tuesday (10/25/2011), cyber crime seems to find new loopholes to perform an action, namely via the QR Code.
According to Mobile Crunch, is now the perpetrators of crimes in Russia started to use QR Code technology to attract users, so they download malware Android.
Applications that are downloaded by a consumer named jimm it, and send text messages to users who 'suck up' pulses users up for $ 5. The application appears to be an Instant Messaging (IM) client that has been hacked by the perpetrators of cybercrime.
Of this case, users should start to notice their use of the use of QR Code technology.
Recent data from 3G Vision revealed that daily use of QR code technology has been implemented in 141 countries, and the use of the third quarter of 2011 rose 20 percent from second quarter 2011.
QR Code is a special matrix barcode that can be read through a scan of a special device such as QR readers, or smart phone, a webcam, and others. Code QR code usually contain text, URLs or other data.
Source: Okezone.com
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