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Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities
From: Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 10:08:47 +0100 (BST)
On Tue, 9 May 2006 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
On Tue, 09 May 2006 23:37:44 -0000, Fergie said:Personally, I think we *are* seeing it. Deluges of it. Every day, week, month, etc, ad nasueum.Do a back-of-envelope. 600 *million* computers. Call it half a billion with spyware. We're seeing hundreds and thousands of hits per day. 100,000 is all of 0.02% of half a billion. Even if they took 1% for a ride, that would be 5 million cases of fraud. One of 3 possibilities: 1) That 87% is waaaay over the top, and 8% is more reasonable. I don't buy this for a moment. 2) The spyware community is either inept, or even 1% is enough to make them all rich enough to not work harder, or the bottleneck is elsewhere - cashout or similar issues. 3) The spyware community is very cognizant of *exactly* how much fraud the credit card companies will tolerate, and are good at flying under the wire.... Take your pick, or suggest a #4.
4. I'd guess that I'm getting a few hundred spam hits per day. If that's average, and assuming 200/day, then we're seeing 50 billion hits per day, not 100,000. _______________________________________________ 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.
Current thread:
- Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Fergie (May 09)
- Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Valdis . Kletnieks (May 09)
- Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Dude VanWinkle (May 10)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Fergie (May 09)
- Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Valdis . Kletnieks (May 09)
- Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Drsolly (May 10)
- Re: [privacy] Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Ken Dyke (May 10)
- Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Valdis . Kletnieks (May 09)
- Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Fergie (May 09)
- RE: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Alex Eckelberry (May 09)
- RE: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Fergie (May 09)
- RE: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Alex Eckelberry (May 09)
- Re: RE: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Valdis . Kletnieks (May 09)
- Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Axel Pettinger (May 10)
- Re: RE: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Valdis . Kletnieks (May 09)