Is it any surprise hackers have taken advantage of President Obamas online popularity?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / PRURGENT Hickory, N.C. January 29, 2009 – President Barack Obama is the First U.S. President with a Facebook page, and a YouTube channel. In addition, the President has 1 million MySpace friends, 3.7 million Facebook supporters and his campaign database boasts the e-mail addresses of 13 million supporters. President Obama is truly the nations first wired president. So is it any surprise that hackers have taken advantage of the new presidents online popularity? Walling Data, North Americas top distributor of AVG Internet Security Products, discovered a new computer threat this week that exhibits interesting symptoms, including a pop up of the Presidents face in the bottom right hand corner of infected computers. Ironically, the worm was discovered on the network of a K-12 school in the Presidents home state of Illinois. From what we can tell so far, the good news is that this worm is nothing more than a major nuisance. This threat spreads via external devices, su
