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CYBERTHIEVES SILENTLY COPY AS YOU TYPE]
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:04:11 -0500
no it is not news. I send such to show how disconneted the public is. djf -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [IP] CYBERTHIEVES SILENTLY COPY AS YOU TYPE Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:57:31 -0600 From: Robert Alberti <alberti () sanction net> Reply-To: alberti () sanction net Organization: Sanction, Inc. To: dave () farber net CC: ip () v2 listbox com References: <2F71F329-7B07-4DA0-95A9-DA6E1E885463 () warpspeed com> <DE676687-0BB4-4A83-91EE-60D193FEA377 () farber net> This is news? I look forward to the upcoming warnings of new self-installing pop-up programs called "spyware." On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 16:03 -0500, David Farber wrote:
Begin forwarded message: From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com> Date: February 27, 2006 8:18:17 AM EST To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] CYBERTHIEVES SILENTLY COPY AS YOU TYPE Reply-To: dewayne () warpspeed com [Note: This item comes from friend John McMullen. DLH] CYBERTHIEVES SILENTLY COPY AS YOU TYPE [SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Tom Zeller, Jr] There is evidence that among global cybercriminals, phishing may already be passé. In some countries, like Brazil, it has been eclipsed by an even more virulent form of electronic con -- the use of keylogging programs that silently copy the keystrokes of computer users and send that information to the crooks. These programs are often hidden inside other software and then infect the machine, putting them in the category of malicious programs known as Trojan horses, or just Trojans. <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/27/technology/27hack.html> Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com> ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as ip () sanction net To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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