I just took the Certified Ethical Hacker class, and while it wasn't what I wanted, it definitely gets the idea across that you should never accept attachments in email. It's very simple to fake an email from anybody to anybody and attach something that looks innocuous but plants whatever malicious code the attacker wants to infect your machine with.
I used to think I was just worried about protecting my systems from script kiddies and zombie/bot nets because those are the most numerous and most likely attacks. Most of those are pretty easy to protect from. Now I'm even more aware of just how amazingly easy it is to hack most computers and have to assume that the only reason my systems aren't hacked on a daily basis is that targeting a public library just isn't cool nor profitable enough to be worth doing.
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Date: 2008-08-19 02:46 pm (UTC)I used to think I was just worried about protecting my systems from script kiddies and zombie/bot nets because those are the most numerous and most likely attacks. Most of those are pretty easy to protect from. Now I'm even more aware of just how amazingly easy it is to hack most computers and have to assume that the only reason my systems aren't hacked on a daily basis is that targeting a public library just isn't cool nor profitable enough to be worth doing.