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New Storm Worm Outbreak Blasting The Internet
The latest variant is dangerous because it's encrypted to hide from antivirus programs and uses a hard-to-squash peer-to-peer network.
"Ullrich added that it's frustrating that this type of attack, which depends on users opening an attachment from an unknown sender, still works ... and works so well. "It's user stupidity, and that's the thing there is no patch for."
By Sharon Gaudin
InformationWeek
Apr 13, 2007 06:05 AM
http://www.informationweek.com/security/sh...cleID=199000691
The latest variant is dangerous because it's encrypted to hide from antivirus programs and uses a hard-to-squash peer-to-peer network.
"Ullrich added that it's frustrating that this type of attack, which depends on users opening an attachment from an unknown sender, still works ... and works so well. "It's user stupidity, and that's the thing there is no patch for."
By Sharon Gaudin
InformationWeek
Apr 13, 2007 06:05 AM
http://www.informationweek.com/security/sh...cleID=199000691
This post has been edited by buddy215: 13 April 2007 - 11:13 AM
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