[pchelpers] Article:Even Seemingly Reliable E-Mail Vulnerable to Hackers

By BYRON ACOHIDO, USA TODAY
SEATTLE, March 22, 2008

You can no longer trust Office or QuickTime files that arrive in e-mail,
even from organizations and people you deal with regularly.


For that matter, any file from a popular software application, sent by
e-mail or accessible at a website, is no longer trustworthy. Why? Data
thieves are increasingly using them as snares in attacks that focus on
patrons of companies and agencies that collect sensitive data, or zero
in on specific individuals within certain organizations.

Targeted attacks often escape detection. But click on the wrong thing,
and "You could be opening up a door that allows the hacker to do some
really bad damage," says Alan Paller, research director at The SANS
Institute, a tech security think tank.

More here:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=4477958&page=1
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