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It's somewhat baffling that this type of virus is still such a rampant problem. What this really underscores is just how bad even basic security policies are at even large corporations. Beyond anti-virus, heuristics and firewalls, this attack has ultimately spread as fast as it has because users have clicked on the files.

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One of the biggest threats are hidden attacks using Javascript. There was a 52 percent rise in such "obfuscated attacks" in the first half of 2010. The increased adoption of cloud computing and virtualization brings with it its own security threats.

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What if it wasn't? What if the separation between attacker data, and programmer code, was strongly maintained despite the developer writing in a traditionally insecure manner? What if String Interpolation could be safe?

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