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Security Fix: Tracking the Password Thieves
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:31:57 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brian Krebs: [snip] The Washington Post today ran a story I wrote about an epidemic of data theft being fueled by password-stealing viruses and phishing attacks. In some ways, the story behind the reporting that went into the piece is just as interesting, so I'd like to share a few of those details. I based the story in part on a cache of stolen data I found online (more on how I obtained it in a bit). The data was being compiled by a password-stealing virus that had infected many thousands of computers worldwide; the particular text file that I found included personal information on 3,221 victims scattered across all 50 U.S. states. [snip] More: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/03/tracking_the_password_th ieves_1.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFF93q6q1pz9mNUZTMRAkEDAKD89UxnW6A2tYKU5O9ZWDg69YkB7wCeIECV z/fMFsnKdTkb98lpow1uESk= =9Jk6 -----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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