Too bad I’ll be on the plane - will miss the inauguration ceremony totally. But here’s an interesting piece of news from Symantec :
As anticipation builds around President-elect Barack Obama’s upcoming inauguration ceremony, Symantec Security Response’s global sensors have detected a new wave of malicious spam messages trying to capitalize on the popularity of the new President.
A new threat - W32.waledac - uses classic social engineering techniques to get unsuspecting users to click on hyperlinks contained within e-mails that lead to another site filled with malicious links. Although W32.waledac is not a high-risk threat, users may be quick to click on a link to get to the fake breaking news, forgetting about potential hazards. Late last year, this same piece of malicious software was used as part of Christmas-related threats.
Symantec’s updated blog provides the latest information on inauguration-related threats at https://forums.symantec.com/t5/blogs/blogarticlepage/blog-id/spam/article-id/136. Symantec’s security experts will continue to collect and analyze data on this topic.
(Signing off from Mumbai)
