Millions Of Personal Computers Can Be Unknowing Accomplices In Major C yber Crimes

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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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 Winkler’s
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


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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