On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:43:07 -0700, DEFCON 88 wrote:

On Sep 20, 11:35Â*am, dave wrote:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/201...my-250956.html

A mammoth army of infected computers is being assembled, but it's
unclear yet what purpose they will be put to.

Wave after wave of malicious email attachments has been sent out since
August, and with average success rates for such mailings, millions of
machines could be compromised, says Internet security firm Commtouch.

Once infected, the computers can be loaded with additional malware that
can perform a range of activities, including spamming, participating in
DDoS attacks, stealing bank credentials and compromising email and
social- network accounts, according to an upcoming Commtouch blog post.

As a big iron (IBM mainframe) programmer, I'm always amazed at how the
Windows op sys is so open to viruses and malware. It would be funny if
it wasn't so serious.


You were right the first time; it's funny. Microsoft asks for it. Where
is it written we need to put our infrastructure on the same network as
Facebook.? Why does everything need to be connected to everything else?