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12-23-2003, 03:49 PM
Rampant Epidemics Of Powerful Malicious Software Dec 1 2003, 02:21 PM
There is a kind of software that has consistently gotten faster and more powerful, and is available free worldwide. Unfortunately, it is "malicious software," the insidious purveyor of viruses and other threats.
According to the security company Symantec, the overall rate of attack activity from this broad category of high-tech threats - known commonly as malware - rose nearly 20 percent in the last year.
Attacks are spreading more quickly, as well. Viruses used to take months to propagate, and then days. But a worm called Slammer that struck in January "infected 90 percent of the vulnerable systems in just 15 minutes," a Symantec executive, Arthur Wong, said in recent Congressional testimony ....
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There is a kind of software that has consistently gotten faster and more powerful, and is available free worldwide. Unfortunately, it is "malicious software," the insidious purveyor of viruses and other threats.
According to the security company Symantec, the overall rate of attack activity from this broad category of high-tech threats - known commonly as malware - rose nearly 20 percent in the last year.
Attacks are spreading more quickly, as well. Viruses used to take months to propagate, and then days. But a worm called Slammer that struck in January "infected 90 percent of the vulnerable systems in just 15 minutes," a Symantec executive, Arthur Wong, said in recent Congressional testimony ....
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