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Re: Future Impact of Viruses on Internet
From: Jim Moore <jhmfa () RIT EDU>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:52:21 -0500
I always browse the year in review types of things from the major vendors. I look for balance, and/or insight. This year I liked Clearswift's. "2003 was a quite extraordinary year in the malware world. Three major developments went largely unrecognised: * the emergence of long-term malware projects, involving multi-stage attacks using spam, worms, trojans, spyware and proxies * a clear switch in motivation - no longer intellectual challenge or simple-minded cyber-vandalism, but financial gain became the primary motive * the emergence of a covert peer-to-peer malware network." (1) (1) ThreatLab 2003 Retrospective: The Year the Mafia Moved In, (January 2004) Retrieved Jan 12, 2004, Clearswift website: http://www.clearswift.com/support/threatlab/resources/ThreatLabRetro2003 _US.pdf Jim ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/.
Current thread:
- Re: Future Impact of Viruses on Internet, (continued)
- Re: Future Impact of Viruses on Internet Herrera Reyna Omar (Jan 28)
- Re: Future Impact of Viruses on Internet Gene Spafford (Jan 28)
- Re: Future Impact of Viruses on Internet Gary Flynn (Jan 28)
- Re: Future Impact of Viruses on Internet Gary Dobbins (Jan 29)
- Re: Future Impact of Viruses on Internet Marty Hoag (Jan 29)
- Re: Future Impact of Viruses on Internet Gordon D. Wishon (Jan 29)
- Re: Future Impact of Viruses on Internet Cal Frye (Jan 29)
- Re: Future Impact of Viruses on Internet Gary Dobbins (Jan 29)
- Re: Future Impact of Viruses on Internet Cal Frye (Jan 29)
- Re: Future Impact of Viruses on Internet Gene Spafford (Jan 29)
- Re: Future Impact of Viruses on Internet Jim Moore (Feb 03)
- Re: Future Impact of Viruses on Internet Scott Weeks (Feb 03)
- Re: Future Impact of Viruses on Internet Jim Moore (Feb 03)
- Re: Future Impact of Viruses on Internet Scott Weeks (Feb 03)