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Hackers Track Down Banking Fraud
An anonymous reader writes "Noticing some commonalities in the spam flooding their email
in-boxes, a small group of hackers set out to track down who was
responsible. Along the way they uncovered a trail that led them to an
organized gang of criminals halfway around the world, and right back
to some of the largest financial institutions in the US, and their
customers, that became the gang's prey. See the SecurityFocus story for more details."
GO LINUX!
-- hunterkll
There will be a special on the discovery channel titled "full inbox" nov 28th at 7:00pm with this very topic as subject. I did some post production on the special, and it really is an interesting and well-filmed film.
...why not pour some of the FBI budget into funding Linux training camps throughout the nation?
I claim this first post for all the leet gentoo users out their doing alot of haxoring!!!111
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News for Nerds? Please?
Does it take to read a messed up URL and an email header?
Just goto here for more info
L33t!!!
Hax0rz!
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
I hate to break it to you, but I fear that you aren't the first poster. I know how nice it can be as it really does make one feel important, but alas, you're still at the pond scum stage and no matter what you try to do, you're still a tadpole swimming in shit.
Not that it's a bad thing, mind you. Afterall, we all like a bit of stink; this is why we smell it.
How dare you! I've been studying the practice of "First Posters" for quite some time now and I think I fully qualify. Whether or not my stink smells should be of no concern to you. I'll have you know that my stink is of the highest quality. Perhaps you just don't have the nose to recognise quality stink when you smell it!
*BSD be dying like a muthafucka!
see me naked
- faces-and-show-how-much-my-tits-have-grown-since-I -was-12-which-is-about-1-year-ago-camgirl.
Not naked enough, but she is pretty cute and on one picture she actually wears a "got root" shirt.
But you should know that Slashdot is the official gay community and as such noone will be interested in females.
Review:
Face: ++++
Tits: +++++
Nudeness: --
Content: -----
_____________
(Weighing: Face*3 + Tits*3 + Nudeness*4 + Content*1)
----> 14/4 = +++.5
Overall, the standard arrogant American oooh-look-I've-got-a-website-and-I-can-make-funny
yup. looks like you're fucked. too bad, so sad.
The article states several times that Europeans have are poor writers (spelling & grammatical errors) compared to Americans. Obviously this is a pure hoax. I know well: I read /.
... is currently being run by the U.S. Goverment. It's called Social Security.
That's because you use the ignroamous definition of "hacking":
They never performed any exploits though, like actually trying to access the web server in russia to see what information they actually had...
instead of the nomral meaning, dissasemble and understand. The people who figured out what was going on with their spam did a better job of understanding a scam than the people being scammed. It was damn good hacking
Now run along and play with that scam site of your own and the Windoze crap that runs it. You, Bill Gates and Peter Tippett can fold that deffinition of yours till it's all sharp corners and stick it up each others declining sales.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
this is a troll mod down. i believed you untill you said "i hacked into their email" lol. you also refer to a slashdot story post several weeks ago about ebay car fraud and nigerian 419 scams.
if your located in canada why dont you call the rcmp instead of the fucking brits.
It is highly unlikely that any cops in a position to do anything about this gang will care enough to listen to you, even if you were bold enough to go to them directly with all the evidence in hand.
My suggestion is vigilante justice. You've already been doing it by warning off the other marks when you can. You can extend that low-level interference to do be a bit more active - let them run their scams and you impersonate the marks. When you have agreed on a money transfer, send 60 cents instead of $6000. Or you could step it up some and start actively making trouble for the UK guy - post each new phone number to gay classifieds in the UK or something equally likely to generate a flood of calls (although in the UK, cell phone calls are paid by the person calling the phone - you can probably sign him up for SMS spam, I hear that is a growing problem over there). Or you could get more hostile, find out as much as you can about the school he's going to and start messing with him there, see if you can cancel his classes (either online or spend a couple of bucks to call in and impersonate him on the phone, do a little social engineering). I'm sure you can come up with a bunch of things to do if you are so motivated and the fact that you are in Canada and they are on the other side of the pond should let you get away with all kinds of legally dubious actions.