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Google Says Spam, Virus Attacks to Get More Clever

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the also-good-feels-good dept.

eweekhickins writes "Google's Postini team says new attacks will take the form of sneaky viruses that will blend with spam, leveraging specific current events, such as the Super Bowl or the Summer Olympic Games. Better yet, virus attacks will target executives at companies whose intellectual property is deemed valuable on the black market. A lot of these attacks will masquerade as legitimate business agencies, such as the Internal Revenue Service, the Better Business Bureau and the SEC."

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  1. You don't say? by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damn, my entire security plan really depended on them suddenly getting really really stupid. If the scammers suddenly forgot how to send email, switch on a computer, or breathe air my life would be so much easier.

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  2. Well, which is it? by mcmonkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    A lot of these attacks will masquerade as legitimate business agencies, such as the Internal Revenue Service, the Better Business Bureau and the SEC.

    Will these attacks masquerade as legitimate business agencies, or as agencies such the Internal Revenue Service, the Better Business Bureau, and the SEC?

  3. Re:And you know by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    seriously... slashdot should provide us with some way to "preview" our comments before submitting.

    j/k

  4. Re:How? by Itninja · · Score: 3, Funny

    Everybody knows that Google is so |337 that even the spammers grace them with beta copies of new spam.

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  5. Re:And you know by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 2, Funny

    A few hundred? You are aware that there are at least ten thousand people connected to the internet..

  6. Its kinda ironic by mixtape5 · · Score: 2, Funny

    how at the end it asks you to click a link to download the full report. (ITS A TRAP!!)

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  7. Re:And you know by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Your mom is targeted in many other ways, also.

  8. Re:YAWN by Richard+W.M.+Jones · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is a sales pitch, there's nothing new in that article. Google is just fishing for more business for postini...

    You mean TFA is just a sophisticated form of spam :-)

    Rich.

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  9. Evolutionists, beware! by fph+il+quozientatore · · Score: 2, Funny

    I strongly object to the fact that virus evolutionist theories are taught on this forum. Actually, all the viruses were created by God 6000 years ago, and no evolution can happen. You have no proof. Your fallacious theories should not be taught in public schools.

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  10. /. emails. by antdude · · Score: 2, Funny

    Soon we will have /. phishing e-mails like "Cmdr. Malda wants to know your password so he can test something with your account!"

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  11. By the Power of Grayskull NO..... by EdIII · · Score: 3, Funny

    Better yet, virus attacks will target executives at companies whose intellectual property is deemed valuable on the black market.


    They found the biggest security weakness of every single company... The Pointy Haired Ones.