To: nuconvert
...thousands of personal computers in England were infected with the malicious Zeus Trojan. Using it, criminal gangs gained the personal logins to thousands of bank accounts, enabling them to transfer money to accounts under criminal control.Any guesses about which computer operating system proved to be so vulnerable it permitted penetration and access to personal financial data?
3 posted on
09/30/2010 9:57:47 AM PDT by
doc11355
To: doc11355
Any, when social engineering is involved.
To: doc11355
They all are vulnerable, IMO.
I still pay my bills with checks. Won’t do anything financial on the computer.
To: doc11355
Any guesses about which computer operating system proved to be so vulnerable it permitted penetration and access to personal financial data? Nobody wants to say the obvious, obviously.
(It was CP/M, right?)
8 posted on
09/30/2010 12:48:37 PM PDT by
thulldud
(Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
To: doc11355
Any guesses about which computer operating system proved to be so vulnerable it permitted penetration and access to personal financial data? Duh, wuz it Linux? Dat wascally Ubuntu!
12 posted on
10/01/2010 12:54:46 AM PDT by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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