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A Huge Cache of Stolen Financial Data
New York Times ^ | October 31, 2008 | John Markoff
Posted on November 1, 2008 12:25:56 PM PDT by yorkie
Trying to get a handle on computer crime is always hard, made more difficult by the Alice-in-Wonderland nature of the Internet (On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog, etc.).
However, each new data point on computer crime and the risks of identity theft appears more frightening.
On Friday morning, the RSA FraudAction Research Lab reported it had uncovered a digital cache of more than a half million credit card numbers and online bank account logins and passwords that have been acquired during the past two-and-a-half years by what the researchers believe is a Russian online gang.
These caches of stolen identity information are created automatically by digital Trojan horse programs that steal the information from computer users after they have taken over their systems. The Trojans are usually distributed by networks of zombie computers known as botnets.
(Excerpt) Read more at bits.blogs.nytimes.com ...
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“The Paid Soviet Agent Behind Axelrod and Obama”
New Zeal blog ^ | Oct 31, 2008 | Trevor Loudon
Posted on November 1, 2008 8:33:51 AM PDT by Interesting Times