The specially created presentation was a PowerPoint slide
deck that discussed the difference between men and women in a humorous manner,
which seems to always be interesting to either sex.
NOTE Creating some chain letters, cute pictures, or slides that appeal to
many people is a common vector of infecting other computers. One of the
main problems today is that many of these messages contain zero-day attacks,
which means that victims are vulnerable until the vendor releases some type
of fix or patch.
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In the past, attackers??™ goals were usually to infect as many systems as possible or to
bring down a well-known system or website, for bragging rights. Today??™s attackers are
not necessarily out for the ???fun of it???; they are more serious about penetrating their targets
for financial gains and attempt to stay under the radar of the corporations they are
attacking and of the press.
Examples of this shift can be seen in the uses of the flaws in Microsoft Office previously
discussed. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities was not highly publicized for quite
some time. While the attacks did not appear to be a part of any kind of larger global campaign,
they also didn??™t seem to happen to more than one target at a time, but they have
occurred.
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