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Stealing Data? A Sniffer Shows it's Easy

Posted by timothy on from the duh dept.

museumpeace writes "Though its not exactly a How-To of cracking into financial institutions, a few intriguing details are mentioned in a New York Times article "the Sniffer vs the Cybercrooks" (it's worth the cookie). From the article: ""Tell me the things you most want to keep secret," Mr. Seiden challenged a top executive at the bank a few years back.....A week later, Mr. Seiden again sat in this man's office in Manhattan, in possession of both supposedly guarded secrets....""

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  1. BugMeNot by Fermatprime · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.bugmenot.com/

    gets you past registration

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    1. Re:BugMeNot by pyrrhonist · · Score: 4, Informative
      or we can all use this from now on: username AnonymousCoward password password

      No, actually, you can't. The NYT routinely removes accounts that are being used by more than one IP.

      That's why you need to use the bugmenot.com site mentioned above (i.e. logins that no longer work are removed from bugmenot's database). Furthermore, bugmenot works with other sites besides the NYT.

      Also, for Firefox users, you can try the extension.

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  2. Reg Free by Anti_Climax · · Score: 4, Informative

    Paste this link into google and click through for a single page version

    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/business/yourmon ey/31hack.html?pagewanted=all

    no reg required

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    1. Re:Reg Free by volve · · Score: 3, Informative

      Actually it worked fine. All nytimes.com checks on is a referrer - if it's Google, you get in for free. So even though Google said "hey, I got nuthin!" for that URL, just click it again and voila, you're in.

      -volve