No Joke: Spammers Capitalize on April Fools' DayNo Joke: Spammers Capitalize on April Fools' Day

<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/01/april_fool_storm_worm/">The Register</a>, <a href="http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9906880-57.html">CNET News.com</a>

Jim Manico, OWASP Global Board Member

April 1, 2008

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Hackers are taking advantage of April Fools' Day with new releases of the Storm Worm.The latest spam e-mail campaign aims to trick recipients into visiting Web sites under the control of hackers containing executables with names such as foolsday.exe, Kickme.exe or funny.exe. E-mail subject lines might simply say "April Fool's Day," and in the body of the email: "Doh! April Fools," followed by a numeric URL.

Spam makes up 90 percent of total e-mail volume, according to Google subsidiary Postini, costing U.S. companies large and small billions in in lost productivity and other expenses.The Register, CNET News.com

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Jim Manico

OWASP Global Board Member

Jim Manico is a Global Board Member for the OWASP foundation where he helps drive the strategic vision for the organization. OWASP's mission is to make software security visible, so that individuals and organizations worldwide can make informed decisions about true software security risks. OWASP's AppSecUSA<https://2015.appsecusa.org/c/> conferences represent the nonprofit's largest outreach efforts to advance its mission of spreading security knowledge, for more information and to register, see here<https://2015.appsecusa.org/c/?page_id=534>. Jim is also the founder of Manicode Security where he trains software developers on secure coding and security engineering. He has a 18 year history building software as a developer and architect. Jim is a frequent speaker on secure software practices and is a member of the JavaOne rockstar speaker community. He is the author of Iron-Clad Java: Building Secure Web Applications<http://www.amazon.com/Iron-Clad-Java-Building-Secure-Applications/dp/0071835881> from McGraw-Hill and founder of Brakeman Pro. Investor/Advisor for Signal Sciences.

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