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Tigger.A Trojan Quietly Steals Stock Traders' Data
**$tarDu$t** recommends a Washington Post Security Fix blog post dissecting the Tigger.A trojan, which has been keeping a low profile while exploiting the MS08-66 vulnerability to steal data quietly from online stock brokerages and their customers. An estimated quarter million victims have been infected. The trojan uses a key code to extract its rootkit on host systems that is almost identical to the key used by the Srizbi botnet. The rootkit loads even in Safe Mode. "Among the unusually short list of institutions specifically targeted by Tigger are E-Trade, ING Direct ShareBuilder, Vanguard, Options XPress, TD Ameritrade, and Scottrade. ... Tigger removes a long list of other malicious software titles, including the malware most commonly associated with Antivirus 2009 and other rogue security software titles ... this is most likely done because the in-your-face 'hey, your-computer-is-infected-go-buy-our-software!' type alerts generated by such programs just might ... lead to all invaders getting booted from the host PC."
more effective that the antivirus I use today
Nullius in verba
Does it make your computer bounce up and down on its tail too?
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
I though the most wonderful thing about Tiggers was that there was only one of them
Nullius in verba
Stocks are going down. Don't buy stock.
..does it run on Linux?
sudo mount --milk --sugar
...nothing of value was lost.
find someone who was recently in debt, and is now very much out of debt
Agreed, let's go after the bailout recipients.
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
you just described the entire slashdot demographic
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I'm okay with this worm stealing data so long as it put a little more effort into it: you know, it could introduce itself as Prince Leta Matobo living in exile in Ghana, spend some time building up a rapport, and then start making suggestions about making billions of dollars using 100% guaranteed modalities.
This automated stealing of data is just bullshit.
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
you nailed the whole "socially under-developed" bit, since you just responded with great seriousness to a throwaway joke
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Man, that's just unethical. What's the world coming to?
But look on the bright side - even though honour among thieves is gone, at least the banking world lives on.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
That's a bit harsh. McAffee does a perfectly good job of preventing me doing reasonable things with my own PC like installing programs, running Windows update and using bluetooth to sync with my phone. I wouldn't call that "nothing".