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Tracking the Password Thieves
wiredog writes "From The Washington Post, yet another story about phishers, keyloggers, and viruses. The story is nothing new, but the author has a blog where he describes how he gathered the information that went into the story. Information including the locations of the victims, and the ISPs likeliest to be hit.
Some of the victims included "an engineer for the Architect of the Capitol" and a man who "works in computer security for IBM." One victim "was fresh out of college, where he'd just earned a degree in information security. (He was actively looking for a job in the field; I suggested he may want to go back to the classroom.)" A compromised machine was also found in "the new accounts department at Bank of America" (Score!)"
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If you want to geek out and show off how educated you are (a respectable goal in and of itself) do it by being correct. When you make mistakes like this one, you come off as being both pretentious AND stupid.
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I'm amazed nobody has turned this thread political yet, with the well-known liberal bias at the Washington Post. Surely, they must have published this article as a covert attack on the president, or as an encoded message to help re-embolden the terrorists.