Google Says Spam, Virus Attacks to Get More Clever 108
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."
Re:This Just In! (Score:-1, Funny)
You don't say? (Score:5, Funny)
Well, which is it? (Score:5, 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?
Re:And you know (Score:1, Funny)
j/k
Re:How? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:And you know (Score:3, Funny)
Its kinda ironic (Score:3, Funny)
Re:And you know (Score:0, Funny)
Re:YAWN (Score:3, 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.
Evolutionists, beware! (Score:2, Funny)
/. emails. (Score:3, Funny)
By the Power of Grayskull NO..... (Score:4, Funny)
They found the biggest security weakness of every single company... The Pointy Haired Ones.