[pchelpers] News:Heavy demand for multilingual hackers in global spam market

By Joel Hruska | Published: February 23, 2008 - 10:50AM CT
Being multilingual in the computer industry used to mean a person could
program in C, Cobol, and Fortran, but demand for programmers hackers who
can speak additional real-world languages is apparently on the rise.
Crafting malware has become big business on the global market. As a
recent report from McAfee details, sophisticated malware authors are
increasingly being hired to craft country-, language-, company-, and
software-specific attacks. Lingual skills are a crucial part of pulling
off such focused attacks, and companies are looking to hire people who
can speak the language of their targets. Obvious misspellings or
grammatical errors are one of the biggest clues that an email or website
isn't legitimate, and it's a flaw that those in the industry would like
to repair.

More here:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080223-heavy-demand-for-multilingual-hackers-in-global-spam-market.html
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