Posted on 07/18/2005 12:30:54 PM PDT by kerrywearsbotox
A worker sends an office colleague an e-mail with a corporate document attached, but the seeming routine message turns out to harbor a malicious passenger, because the attachment contains hidden pornographic images that were inserted by a hacker during it's transmission over the Internet. When the document is opened by a female employee, she files a lawsuit for sexual harassment. This particular case is hypothetical, but the situation is real, experts told UPI's Networking. By Gene Koprowski
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It's good to PGP sign emails.
Well, nobody is inserting any dirty pictures in my email!
All I'm getting is project plans, forms to fill out, and meeting invitations.
You sound oddly disappointed. :^)
Sounds more like "companies trying to stir up business by inventing a problem" to me. Essentially all email today between major corporations goes in one SMTP hop -- directly from one corporation's mail server to the mail server of the recipient. "Hacking" into attachments in that email requires that the hacker intercept the IP packet stream, or hijack the recipient server. Any hacker able to do that has succeeded in obtaining all of the email coming and going from a company. In that situation worrying about the "hacker" putting naughty pictures in attachments is like worrying about muddy footprints on the kitchen floor during a home invasion.
Its really a non issue, no doubt being hyped to sell some product.
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