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...you’re a victim of social engineering—a tactic used by the latest viruses to trick you into downloading an attachment. Socially-engineered viruses aren’t new, but their recent rise in sophistication is. Viruses like Sobig, Mydoom, Netsky and Bagle “spoof” (or fake) sender addresses, create believable e-mail texts and give their attachments harmless names, all in an effort to convince you to download and run their harmful payloads. Bagle.J, for instance, sent a message to Harvard students from what appeared to be “Harvard.edu...
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...
...started with the January 27 release of Mydoom.A. At its peak, this first variant of Mydoom accounted for 8.3 percent of all e-mails moving across the Internet—one out of every 12 e-mails processed—according to the e-mail-filtering firm MessageLabs. The virus launched a vengeance Denial of Service attack against the SCO Group, a company that has claimed ownership of some of the code used in open-source Linux distributions. With millions of computers sending token bits of data 12 times every second, Mydoom’s attack would have easily overrun...
Enter big-business Bagle. The Bagle virus is actually an example of good—if illegal—business. By compromising computer systems, the Bagle virus can create networks of highly efficient spamming servers. So the next penis-enlargement e-mail you get might just be your own fault. Spamming can generate significant profits, especially if the spammers don’t have to pay for Internet access...
...Strike at Europe's Heart "Terrorism is a virus that eats deep into our life. It cuts across all the lines of nationality, race, religion and social background." Agboola Kehinde Lateef Lagos, Nigeria...