IT vs. the mischief makers

摘要

The summer of 2003 will go down in the history books as a rough one for network security executives. According to Computer Economics, an IT research and consulting firm, hackers unleashed at least 50 viruses during August alone. These include the Blaster worm, which Symantec estimated infiltrated 330,000 systems within its first four days, and SoBig.F, to which e-mail security tools vendor MessageLabs awarded the dubious honor of being the fastest-spreading virus ever. The company intercepted 12.8 million SoBig.F-laced e-mails for more than 65,000 business customers within 13 days of its release.