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Today's malware is more complex than ever, yet it's still based on three basic hacks

By Maxim Weinstein
August 13, 2013

I've been working in the tech field for a bit over 15 years now. It's amazing to see how the industry and the technology has changed during that time. In my first job out of grad school, I taught corporate employees how to use Netscape Communicator on their Pentium II desktop PCs, which had just been migrated to Windows NT 4.0. I was the only person in my family with a cell phone -- a large, clunky object with a telescoping antenna and a belt holster. And IBM had just announced a new hard drive for notebook PCs that broke barriers by providing 6.4 GB of storage, three times the average in those days.

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