Computer spammers link virus to e-mail on Michael Jackson death investigation
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 01:21
in Mathematics & Economics
Cyber criminals are exploiting public interest in the death of singer Michael Jackson with spam messages that infect computers with a virus able to steal bank account numbers and passwords, according to Gary Warner, UAB's director of research in computer forensics. Warner and the other researchers at the UAB Spam Data Mine began tracking the celebrity-focused spam early on Tuesday, 30 June...