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Catastrophic virus outbreaks had long been based on security holes in Windows, like last August’s Blaster worm. Current virus writers have realized that while security holes are fleeting, user gullibility is forever. This gullibility has enabled an international hacker war fought with all the drama of daytime television and all the maturity of an adults-only AOL chatroom infiltrated by sixth-graders...
...only solution is vigilance. In the end, socially-engineered viruses rely on user gullibility to spread. But you don’t have to stop using e-mail to be safe—just be a little more liberal with the “delete” key. Hopefully, the current baptism by fire will convince new and novice users that e-mail attachments aren’t necessarily friendly. Because if not, socially-engineered viruses with payloads that do more than open security holes—like payloads that delete files or steal passwords—could make...
Officials from HPPS also plan to meet this week with Director of Residential Computing Kevin S. Davis ’98 about coordinating computer repair efforts with the User Assistants...
...Rahim, who said Friday that he had not yet heard of the planned initiative, added that Iraqi libraries need to be made more “user friendly” and conducive to foreign academic research...
...don’t think we’ve ever seen the kind of intensity in virus proliferation as we’re now seeing,” said Todd van Stolk-Riley ’06, a user assistant (UA) at Harvard Law School...