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Understanding Storm Botnet's Role in Recent Social Engineering Attacks

General Esm H446
Even with the latest layers of security in spam and virus filtering, there is still the threat of social engineering attacks that lay waste to the best security systems possible. Enter the latest Botnet attacks, this time using YouTube and "confirmation spam" as bait for unsuspecting users to infect their systems. In the world of social networking and Web 2.0 where everything "just works", how do you reach users who still believe that Windows is the internets and explain to them what social engineering is?

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