11:32 10 years with the sudden outbreak of love | |
| Exactly 10 years ago, almost to the day, the world learned about how dangerous and can be invisible computer viruses. Unforgettable "I Love You" has infected 55 million PCs in record time, and calculated the damage amounted to billions in any currency. A year after the Melissa Virus has violated the innocence of the global network, a student from the Philippines come to mind to write a simple script in Visual Basic, which will send a whole address book Outlook'a. The virus has spread rapidly across Europe and Asia, by the morning of May 5, "capture" is the entire planet. But perhaps we all understand that this is not a virtuoso coding did all the venture so successful. A student from Manila, that not knowing very successfully applied social engineering. Letter is a pedlar of infection, it was simple enough. Application is called LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs, a subject line: «I Love You». Before the average user time to understand who recognized her love for him, the script has already done its job. Naturally, not all open applications, but 3 million windows-users could not refrain from reading the "love letters". These people have served as carriers of the first network e-mail "virus. Which, unlike Melissa, only multiplies, doing a lot of unpleasant things on the victim's computer. First, immediately pick to pieces, photo and music files, tried to download and install the Trojan, which was engaged in intercepting passwords and sending them to the Philippines. You could even say that it is this trait makes the «I Love You» direct ancestor of modern botnets, which are larger and more complex. The police tracked down 23-year old student Onelya de Guzman, fast enough. However, that did not happen quickly - because it is the adjustment of the Criminal Code of the Philippines under this deal, since there was no law saying that shines virus creators. Since we are all very responsible approach to the attachments in an email. Joke. Source: Wired | |
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