On may 4, 2000, a message, a simple email with the subject “ILOVEYOU” caused by cyber attacks more devastating in history. Onel de Guzman, a programmer young filipinos, were identified as the author of the worm, which infektoi millions of computers in just a few hours, causing damage estimated at 10 billion dollars.
Worm ILOVEYOU, also known as VBS/Loveletter and Love Bug, is spread by e-mail, an attachment to the appearance of the safe. When it was opened, worm, was repeated, and he sent a copy of it in the all contacts of the user, thereby blocking the servers of the email and delete the files from the infected computers.
The spread of the fast and the damage of the widespread and they have bowed the knee for businesses, governments and individuals around the world.
In Hong Kong, Michael Gazeley, co-founder of the Network, the Box, did panikun that is spread when the virus started to come. The telephone lines of the office and his shpërthyen the calls from the client to the blues. In the UK, Graham Cluley, an expert on cyber security, saw the chaos as the virus has spread in Europe and beyond.
The response of the authorities, there has been rapid. The FBI, working with the police in the Philippines, he found de Guzman. However, due to the gaps in domestic laws against cyber crime, the man was not brought to the court. This event led to a revision of the law of cyber crime in the Philippines, and to increase the global awareness about the dangers of cyber security.
Twenty years later, the legacy of the worm ILOVEYOU on. Despite the progress of technology, the main weak point exploited by the virus to remain: existing vulnerability of the human. The attacks and social engineering continue to pose a threat to the most important, by demonstrating that in spite of the progress achieved in the protection of knowledge, connecting to the poor is often the username of the end.
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