Researchers predict new computer security threat for wireless networks: Typhoid adware (w/ Video)

Friday, May 21, 2010 - 11:07 in Mathematics & Economics

There's a potential threat lurking in your internet café, say University of Calgary computer science researchers. It's called Typhoid adware and works in similar fashion to Typhoid Mary, the first identified healthy carrier of typhoid fever who spread the disease to dozens of people in the New York area in the early 1900s.

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