Posted on 03/12/2009 10:43:07 AM PDT by ADReditor
Federal agencies are facing emerging cybersecurity threats that are the result of increasingly sophisticated methods of attack and the blending of once distinct types of attack into more complex and damaging forms.
Examples of these threats include spam (unsolicited commercial e-mail), phishing (fraudulent messages to obtain personal or sensitive data), and spyware(software that monitors user activity without user knowledge or consent).
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