Cyber Crime Hits Big Time This Year

An anonymous reader writes to point out the Washington Post's analysis of this year's spike in junk email and online attacks, such as botnets and worms. Image-embedded spam emails made up an amazing percentage of all messages sent in the months of October and November, and something like four million bots are actively adding to that total. These botnets are also increasingly connected to organized crime, as are 'independent' hacker groups. The article goes on for three pages, and doesn't have a lot of hope that 2007 will look a whole lot better. From the article: "Experts worry that businesses will be slow to switch to the [Windows Vista]. And even if consumers rush to upgrade exiting machines or purchase new ones that include Vista, Microsoft will continue to battle security holes in legacy versions of Microsoft Office, which are expected to remain in widespread use for the next 5-10 years."

Comments

Re:One e-mail address to rule them all.. One e-mai

[ScaryMonkey]

Ahem. I believe the correct quote is... "Fool me once, shame on you... uh, fool me... you won't get fooled again." With apologies to George Bush ;)

Re:"Experts worry that businesses.....

[bky1701]

Hmm...

RIAA Jim: Hey, we just got some file-sharers here. Quick save the packets and download the files so we can nab them!
RIAA Bob: Umm, Jim, I donno know to do that on this new windows...
RIAA Jim: Idiot, press that button.
RIAA Bob: I did, it just says "you cannot download this file".
Both: WTF?

Sounds like a plan to me. ;)