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'Criminal' Botnet Stumps for Ron Paul?
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:05:44 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via Wired News. [snip] If Texas congressman Ron Paul is elected president in 2008, he may be the first leader of the free world put into power with the help of a global network of hacked PCs spewing spam, according to computer-security researchers who've analyzed a recent flurry of e-mail supporting the long-shot Republican candidate. "This is clearly a criminal act in support of a campaign, which has been committed with or without their knowledge," says Gary Warner, the University of Alabama's director of research in computer forensics. "The question is, will we see more and more of this, or will this bring shame to the campaigns and will they make clear that this is not a form of acceptable behavior by their supporters?" Warner pointed to provisions of the federal Can-Spam Act. Ron Paul spokesman Jesse Benton says the campaign has no knowledge of the scam. [snip] More: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/10/paul_bot - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHKA0lq1pz9mNUZTMRAoqGAJ9sNSdKILTpjgETlVpOnMc8HUqvvQCg1irQ XocNzQRjR0PUnF+ZHKQub2I= =Nbmh -----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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