Targeted Trojan attacks on the rise
Secure your email and keep your software up to date. Running an alternate operating system such as Ubuntu can help to reduce your exposure to these sorts of attacks. Though as with all operating systems it is still vitally important that you keep your systems up to date, using the automatic update feature.
On December 1, 2005, two e-mail messages were sent from a computer in Western Australia to members of two different human rights organizations. Each e-mail message carried a Microsoft Word document with a previously unknown exploit that would take control of the targeted person’s computer and open up a beachhead into the group’s network.
