[IP] CYBERTHIEVES SILENTLY COPY AS YOU TYPE

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>
Date: February 27, 2006 8:18:17 AM EST
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net@warpspeed.com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] CYBERTHIEVES SILENTLY COPY AS YOU TYPE
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[Note:  This item comes from friend John McMullen.  DLH]

CYBERTHIEVES SILENTLY COPY AS YOU TYPE

[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Tom Zeller, Jr]
There is evidence that among global cybercriminals, phishing may  
already be passé. In some countries, like Brazil, it has been  
eclipsed by an even more virulent form of electronic con -- the use  
of keylogging programs that silently copy the keystrokes of computer  
users and send that information to the crooks. These programs are  
often hidden inside other software and then infect the machine,  
putting them in the category of malicious programs known as Trojan  
horses, or just Trojans.

<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/27/technology/27hack.html>
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