Information Security News: Re: Cybercrime Follows Money Trail

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Forwarded from: Harlan Carvey <keydet89 () yahoo com>

I agree that online banking is an attractive target...but even with
some financial institutions being hit by Slammer, banks, et al., are
still much harder and better protected targets than the home user.

I teach an IR course for Win2K.  During one of the sessions, a lady in
the back of the room asked why anyone would want to access her system.  
Well, this is the time of the year that thousands of us register
TurboTax and Tax Cut software...copying those files off of the system
can lead to identity theft, etc.  How about installing a keylogger?  
Online banking transactions can be monitored...unencrypted passwords
collected...etc.  And given that Windows rootkits are becoming more
stealthy via API hooking methods, such things will be much, much
harder to detect on professionally protected systems, let alone home
systems.



> http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,57911,00.html
>
> By Joanna Glasner 
> Mar. 05, 2003 


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