This column falls under the heading “Ye Gods, What Next?” What we’re talking about here is downloaded viruses / trojans / key-loggers that are served and installed when you simply visit a site bearing them. And mostly these infections bypass current safety measures.
In mid-2007 Google issued a paper entitled “The Ghost in the [...]
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Malware, Part 3: Drive-by Infections
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Malware Part 2: Is the Internet Becoming Too Dangerous?
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A few dismal statistics on the prevalence of dangerous email, from a post here in a security blog SearchSecurity, quoting a study by MessageLabs, a security software firm:
Based on their samples, MessageLabs believes that 90% of all emails globally are spam;
1 in 200 emails contain a phishing attack;
68% of all malicious emails they intercepted were [...]
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