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Spyware for Corporate Espionage
therufus writes "Late in July, an e-mail that hit employee in-boxes at a British credit card and finance company carried a secret payload--spyware capable of recording confidential corporate data and sending it over the Net."
I'm surprised this post didn't find some way to blame Microsoft...
Most of my company's data already goes right to our competitors already. What with our fancy new wireless network. Check it out - SSID: linksys, no wep, no wpa...
Designing a spyware program: $153
Bulk emailing said program: $35
Obtaining thousands of credit card numbers: Priceless
See? Bad things do happen to bad people!
Microsoft is now focussing on security, so there's no need to worry any more :-)
Since we're 110% confident that all those dedicated knowledgeable MS administrators will be keeping up-to-date with all the patches, and that with the new focus, MS software will soon be completely immune to viruses, who cares about any of this stuff ?
Simon.
[removes tongue from cheek]
Physicists get Hadrons!
So far our security record has been 100% according to our internal auditing firm.
Your password is ji5ppii9
Your desktop wallpaper is that of a large blonde woman and 3 kids.
You spend 4 hours a day at slashdot.org, 2+ at espn.com and an hour at goatse.cx
The most used applications on your computer are SOL.EXE, IEXPLORE.EXE and MSWORD.EXE
You chronicaly respond to "Lenghten The Size Of Your Weed" and "See Her Naked" spam e-mails.
Your internal auditing firm is 100% useless.