Review of 2007: Lost in translation

Large-scale data breaches across both the private and public sectors dominated the news throughout the year. Rob Buckley looks back.

JANUARY Systems administrators got their usual New Year's greeting - a new worm that installed variants of Tibs, Nuwar, Banwarum and Glowa as well as two rootkits. Welcome to 2007. And that was only the first outbreak of the month. A fourth zero-day vulnerability was found in Word, while the malware of the year, the Storm Worm Trojan, took advantage of bad weather in Europe, promising news of storm fatalities but only providing its creators with backdoors on to thousands of PCs. Despite these bad omens, things were looking up for IT security, with the first jury conviction of a spammer ...
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