Scott Charney, corporate vice president of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft (Credit:James Martin/CNET ) SAN FRANCISCO–In his keynote at the RSA security conference on Tuesday, Scott Charney, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Trustworthy Computing, suggested that the security industry should follow the health care model of quarantining infected PCs to prevent them from being used to send spam and conduct denial-of-service attacks. In a follow-up interview afterward, Charney elaborated on his vision for reducing the damage from botnets and explains how infected[....]
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“Bomb Blast.” “Jackson is still alive: proof.” “Obama cursed by Pope.” These are just a few of the subjects used by cybercriminals last year to trick people into opening malware-infected e-mails. Spam that uses the latest news headlines was just one of the hot trends last year in the world of cybercrime, according to McAfee’s “Q4 Threats Report” (PDF), released Tuesday. The latest threat assessment also noted a rise in “hacktivism,” or politically motivated cyberattacks. Though spam levels in the fourth quarter actually[....]