CASA de Maryland May Harm Your Computer

Anyone entering a Google search for CASA de Marylandis likely to discover that below the link to the search results, there is a link that says This site may harm your computer.

Esta todo h4x0r3e!.

It seems that during the recent heightened activity -- trying to pressure County Executive Isiah "Ike" Leggett to not alter "immigrant" policies at a meeting supposedly scheduled for April 11 -- a lot of interesting malicious software was downloaded onto users of CASA's website.

Considering the recent ramp-up of solidarity with the government of Mexico -- witness the recent meetings between US President Barack Obama and Mexican Presidente Felipe Calderon -- negotiating strategy and tactics against ultra-violent Mexican transnational drug cartels, somehow it's not surprising that specific pages on the CASA de Maryland website were targeted by elite hackers as distribution sites for a specially engineered payload.

For what it's worth, I hear there's a new cell phone texting virus out there in the wild. It seems that all someone has to do is to text to your number, and poof that phone in your pocket is no longer yours. It will spread itself to everyone on your address list, especially if you have them listed under business contacts.

Coincidence?

I don't know, but if I was the sort of person who gets all of my ideas from CASA de Maryland -- or gods forbid actually gets e-mail from their mailing lists (which are ideal delivery systems for targeted viruses) -- I'd be updating my virus definitions file right now. Careful, though, an ideal targeted virus system looking for special services hacked into the CASA de Maryland site might be expecting to get additional instructions through the virus definitions download. Maybe it's better that CASA subscribers do not update their virus definitions.

Really, it's your computer, your cellphone, your iPod. You decide.

After all, if you depend on CASA, you depend on them. If you can't communicate with them without risking thousands of dollars of equipment and every last secret you might have -- did I mention that the phone viruses always look for things like Social Security, ITIN, and bank-account numbers? -- still you need them to tell you what to do, so go ahead. Accept their e-mails, and keep checking the website!