Monday, February 05, 2007

Cyberthreats 2007

The Seattle Times covers what hackers and cyber-criminals may have planned for 2007. An excerpt:

It used to be that the biggest cyberthreats came from e-mails infected with pernicious worms and viruses. No longer.

According to Ben-Itzhak of Finjan Software, the Web itself is spreading infections, thanks to tens of thousands of sites carrying code designed to let an outsider steal information from someone's computer.

Some of the code is designed so that it automatically downloads itself the minute a user accesses a Web page. Other sites prompt a user to accept what seems to be legitimate software but is actually a malicious program.

Read it
all here.

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