84 ordspråk av Mikko Hypponen
Mikko Hypponen
It's more likely he'll lay low than engage in activation.
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It's really quite clever, ... It uses realistic file names and sends those to people you know. It's social engineering, just like we saw with Love Letter.
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It's still climbing. It's not the worst we've seen, but the infection is sizable.
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It's surprisingly bad,
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It's surprisingly bad. In sheer amount of e-mails, it's larger than any outbreak of the year.
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It's the first time I've heard of any activity coming from there.
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It's trivial for anybody to understand how it works, ... To modify the virus is relatively easy, and to change what the e-mail says is trivial.
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Most affected computers belong to home users, who have no idea they've been infected. ISPs are in the best position to distinguish infected users.
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Most of the tool bars show pop-ups, follow your search and other keyword activity, and use that to target ads to you. It's for-profit hacking. Somebody is making money from each machine that is hit by these tool bars.
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Most of the toolbars show pop-ups, follow your search and other keyword activity, and use that to target ads to you. It's for-profit hacking. Somebody is making money from each machine that is hit by these toolbars.
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Mozilla's popularity has gone from almost zero to double digits, so they have had to deal with a lot of sudden attention. Since Mozilla has become popular, people have been looking for more vulnerabilities.
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Not one of these is able to spread by itself, always the user of the phone has to accept installing of the virus.
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Otherwise, it's totally new code. But there's a common idea,
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Our guidance here is the same as for patches from any other vendor: patch now before someone figures out how to exploit the vulnerability.
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Right now, the situation is bad, but it could be much worse. The potential for problems is bigger than we have ever seen. We estimate 99 percent of computers worldwide are vulnerable to this attack.
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