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Volume 5 ,  Issue 1  (February 2007) table of contents
Security
DEPARTMENT: News 2.0 table of contents
Pages: 8 - 8  
Year of Publication: 2007
ISSN:1542-7730
Author
John Stanik  ACM Queue
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

The explosion of malware is taxing the capabilities of security software companies. On the one hand, the increasingly large sums of money involved are pushing the creation of high-stakes, precisely targeted attacks on companies or individuals. At the same time, we continue to see criminals spamming the world with more “shotgun-style” attacks, which usually are less lucrative.