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Targeted Trojan Attacks Causing Concern

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the with-your-name-on-it dept.

Bill Andad writes to point out a surprise trend emerging from the Virus Bulletin Conference 2006 in Montreal this week. From the article on Daniweb: "It is the smallest of Trojan attacks that are causing the biggest headache in the world of corporate security right now. By targeting individuals within individual companies with individually constructed infected messages, the new-age industrial spy is slipping under the security radar." News.com has more in-depth coverage.

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  1. Re:Get Ubuntu by QuantumG · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Also the african word for "many packages in our repository lack signatures but people install them anyway". Trojans are just as easy on linux as anywhere else.

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