Oy. Vey.
Study done by Carnegie Mellon University examine the cost for an attacker to
pay users to execute arbitrary code - potentially malware.
User at home are asked to download and run an exe without being told what it
did and without any way of knowing it was harmless.
Each week they
From: Valdis Kletnieks valdis.kletni...@vt.edu
Date sent: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 02:34:08 -0400
Each week they increase the payment. Study observed that for payments as low
as
$0.01, 22% of the people who viewed the task ultimately ran the executable.
Once
My security assurance program amounts to paying people $1 for every
executable they do not run.
/mz
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