Top executives face personalized e-mail attacks

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Online miscreants have targeted 500 key business executives in what is believed to be the first mass-targeted malicious-software attack, according to security vendor MessageLabs.

Targeted attacks (http://news.com.com/Report+Targeted+...3-6177303.html) aim to bypass security measures by individually addressing e-mails, which often contain zero-day exploits (http://news.com.com/Microsoft+to+pat...-6181296.html).

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