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Digital Thieves Use Ex-Employees Accounts
prostoalex writes "The New York Times is running an article about a new generation of digital thugs. Using unsecured wireless networks, free e-mail accounts, a wealth of security knowledge, and, most important - employee passwords, thieves are getting access to valuable company databases. Once they're in, they start extorting the companies to pay up for them to leave. Otherwise phony e-mails to customers and sensitive information published publicly will lead to an embarrassment."
"D.D.O.S. attacks are still one of the primary ways of extorting a company, and we're seeing a lot of that," said Larry D. Johnson, special agent in charge of the United States Secret Service's criminal division. "
Heck, they talk like it is such a big deal to start a DOS attack. Just post an article like "Walla Walla school district to abandon FreeBSD and use Linux desktops" on slashdot, using your target's web site for the article location.
Have you Meta Moderated t
It was then that the stalker made a series of mistakes. Among them, he began to brag. In an e-mail message titled "Fire them all," he informed Mr. Videtto that he had found valuable MicroPatent documents by going "Dumpster diving to the Dumpster and recycle bins located in a parking lot on Shawnee Road" in Alexandria, Va., where the company maintained a branch office
From "The Incredibles":
Syndrome: Oh, ho ho! You sly dog! You caught me monologuing!
Ah yes, the evil cybervillain cannot resist the urge to pontificate about his supposed superior intellect and abilities to his victims. Of course, by doing so they reveal all kinds of details about their nefarious plans and give the victims time enough to escape or capture the idiot.
Monologuing trips up the bad guy everytime.Dammit, are you trying to get Canada to launch a preemptive nuclear strike against the US?
Mark Edwards
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