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Spam That Delivers a Pink Slip
alphadogg wrote in with a Network World story that begins: "Last week, a handful of employees at Dekalb Medical Center in Decatur, Ga., received e-mails saying they were being laid off. The subject line read 'Urgent — employment issue,' and the sender listed on the message was at dekalb.org, which is the domain the medical center uses. The e-mail contained a link to a Web site that claimed to offer career-counseling information. And so a few employees, concerned about their employment status and no doubt miffed about being laid off via e-mail, clicked on the link to learn more and unwittingly downloaded a keylogger program that was lurking at the site. Score another one for spammers."
How do you go about "unwittingly downloaded a keylogger program"? Even if you run Win OS and use IE at default settings it takes unpatched exploit and/or click of OK. After that keylogger needs to get past firewall to ring home to be of any use. So can someone explain how this can happen on a properly maintained computer?
I thought not.
Nothing to see here, just moronic borgslaves, move along....
WHY don't all these moron CTO's and VP's of IS get their asses canned, paying MS for their shit?