Kinko's Spy Case Illustrates Public Terminal Risk

tealwarrior writes "CNN reports in this story that a hacker by the name of Jiang was charged with installing keystroke loggers to record passwords in 14 differnet kinkos in New York. These were then used to open bank accounts online. The article mentions Jiang signing people up for accounts with GoToMyPC then then using their own machine to open bank accounts. Also mentioned are similar schemes perpetrated at Boston College." Be careful out there, folks. Sometimes there's even sneakier things than just stealing one's cookies.

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Figures

[Anonymous Coward]

Figures that his name is jiang, some chinaman. We need to do something about these chinese hackers and spammers before it is too late. I suggest nukes.

Duh

[ArmorFiend]

Uh, do you type in sensitive information to public computers running Windows? Then you're a super-dolt!

Re:Funny thing, the name...

[jkrise]

Well, to be fair, Muhammed and Jiang are two of the more common names in the world

But this is the Computing World, not the entire world. It sounds very fishy when some chap in Pakistan finds a Passport related bug, when the no. of American users, crackers and hackers outnumber the Pakistani folks by over 100 times! As a rule, most folks who get arrested, sued, punished and publicised are from countries regarded as anti-US during the cold-war, at any rate.

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