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Millions Of Personal Computers Can Be Unknowing Accomplices In Major C yber Crimes
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:04:33 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Of course, we all know that, but here's an interesting report from CBS News. [snip] Serry Winkler was startled by a knock on her Denver apartment door last year. Three uniformed police officers with a warrant - for her computer. Unbeknownst to Winkler, she had become both an unwitting accomplice and a victim to a crime, CBS News science and technology correspondent Daniel Sieberg reports. Your house has been broken into and you didn't even know it, Winkler said. A hacker, based in Russia, used the Internet to infiltrate Winklers computer and steal a credit card to make fraudulent purchases in her name. [snip] More: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/29/eveningnews/eyeontech/main3556193 .shtml - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHT4vRq1pz9mNUZTMRAiq/AKDVbpoMgExQ3ts//SsVINWW4B0z8QCdEAIb SEbFB5rKhArBAHM15lBQaWc= =1SDR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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