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From Tony Bradley, CISSP-ISSAP, Former About.com Guide to Network Security

Beware Brazilian Plane Crash Malware

Friday July 20, 2007
It is fairly inevitable. When there is a major event or catastrophe in the world, people are interested in learning more about it and friends and family share details via email. It is equally inevitable that malware authors will capitalize on the heightened interest. Currently, there are malware threats circulating on the Internet which use the recent plane crash tragedy in Brazil to lure users into opening the attachments or clicking on the links and infecting their computer. Read this article from Network World for more details.

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