[IP] CYBERTHIEVES SILENTLY COPY AS YOU TYPE]

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

no it is not news. I send such to show how disconneted the public is. djf

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Subject: Re: [IP] CYBERTHIEVES SILENTLY COPY AS YOU TYPE
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:57:31 -0600
From: Robert Alberti <alberti@sanction.net>
Reply-To: alberti@sanction.net
Organization: Sanction, Inc.
To: dave@farber.net
CC: ip@v2.listbox.com
References: <2F71F329-7B07-4DA0-95A9-DA6E1E885463@warpspeed.com>
<DE676687-0BB4-4A83-91EE-60D193FEA377@farber.net>

This is news?  I look forward to the upcoming warnings of new
self-installing pop-up programs called "spyware."

On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 16:03 -0500, David Farber wrote:
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> 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
> Reply-To: dewayne@warpspeed.com
> 
> [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>
> Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com>
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