> The tidal wave of data was traced to a pool of booby-trapped adverts that had been seeded with malicious code. Ahem. > He speculated that the attack had wor

> The tidal wave of data was traced to a pool of booby-trapped adverts that had been seeded with malicious code. Ahem. > He speculated that the attack had worked because its creators had joined one of the networks that piped adverts to people as they browsed the web. AH-HEM!