RE: RE: funsec Office 2007 has 0 security issues

["Larry Seltzer" <Larry () larryseltzer com>]

> > > One thought occurs to me: we - or at any rate I - see comparatively
> little zip encryption with current mailborne malware. 

Looks to me like the author of today's Storm worm outbreak reads funsec.
This is from Ken Dunham's mailing on the attack: "This new variant sends
out copies of itself inside of a password protected ZIP file to evade
anti-virus detection.  E-mails are randomized with different filenames,
different passwords, and different binaries within the ZIP file to evade
detection."

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 

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