To: holymoly
Websense confirmed the new technique's effectiveness by infecting a system with the Trojan, then entering account information into the SSL-protected Deutsche Bank Web site. As expected, the Trojan captured the information and sent an ICMP ping to a malicious remote server. why would they disclose this? this should have been given to the FBI or CIA, they could have tracked it down and busted the person behind it...
To: Echo Talon
And in the mean time admins would be exposed when all they have to o it block outgoing ICMP packets from their LAN! Why would you have people exposed to identity theft?
4 posted on
08/09/2006 6:08:58 AM PDT by
N3WBI3
("I can kill you with my brain" - River Tam)
To: Echo Talon
why would they disclose this? this should have been given to the FBI or CIA, they could have tracked it down and busted the person behind it... Well, that's the Micro$oft way. Keep it secret until you have a fix; meanwhile unsuspecting users are merrily surfin away entering personal data that may or may not be compromised.
Yes, they could, and probably will track down the black hat, but at least the word is out and people can take measures to protect themselves.
8 posted on
08/09/2006 6:47:50 AM PDT by
AFreeBird
(... Burn the land and boil the sea's, but you can't take the skies from me.)
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