Danger in the internet cafe? New computer security threat for wireless networks: Typhoid adware
Monday, May 24, 2010 - 01:31
in Mathematics & Economics
There's a potential threat lurking in your internet café, say 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.