Word: spam
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Computer users are sometimes too busy or ill educated to recognize spam e-mail that can drain away personal information. Security-awareness training is only the first step, but it's a good start...
...here's the real shocker: Huffman taps into his new fast pipe through a wall socket--any old socket in the house will do. "Now if I could just figure out a way to get rid of all these pop-up ads," he says, settling down to clean the spam...
Reeling from the loss of University-funded booze, Harvard undergraduates faced yet another personal invasion last week—a violation of their inboxes. The brothers of Theta Delta Chi (TDC), a fraternity from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), added to Harvard students’ ever-growing spam levels when they emailed a large portion of the undergraduate population invitations to a “Fuckin’ Spookalicious Pre-Halloween Party.” Katherine M. Bringsjord ’09, while wary of the E-vite, laughed at the cyber-booty call. “I just think...
...undoubtedly reading this article--will never know their machines are infected. It doesn't cripple your computer (and can be removed once identified), but the Storm Worm does give its authors the power to quietly control your computer. What do they do with this power? Mostly they send out spam. Back in the day, computer viruses were a relatively innocent affair, written as pranks by teenagers with too much time on their hands between Star Wars sequels. Now they're written by organized criminals looking to make money from fake offers...
...also clear that they've been pulling their punches. Right now the Storm Worm gang controls a massive amount of computing power, as much as some of the world's largest supercomputers, and all they do with it is send out spam and conduct the occasional denial-of-service attack (bombarding a specific server with traffic until it shuts down). We're lucky: so far they haven't gone in for more lucrative, damaging activities like online gambling, stock scams and stealing passwords and credit-card information. Is it possible that even a worm can have a conscience...