New meaning for the term “corrupt files”
There is a very sobering article on computer security in this week’s issue of InfoWorld. In the last year or so, the major threats have moved from young hackers to professional criminal organizations. The types of attacks are quickly getting very sophisticated. Some of these desperados use hard-to-detect code to infect thousands of computers and turn them into “zombie PCs.” While this isn’t new, what is different is that they are advertising through online chat rooms and renting out access to their vast network of compromised computers on an hourly basis.
That’s just one of the issues discussed in the article. Security experts have even had to coin a new term to describe this new breed of larcenous program code - “criminal ware.” Lovely.