Today's malware is highly sophisticated. In spite of this, cybercriminals often seek to exploit human weaknesses to spread their code. This film presents extracts from a presentation by David Emm and Ram Herkanaidu from Kaspersky Lab, looking at the rise of targeted attacks and what we can do to minimise the risk that they pose.
The talk was delivered to students from the Computer and Information Security Society at Plymouth University on 28 March 2012. [(CC) BY-NC-SA 2.0 UK]