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Hackers (Or Pen-Testers) Hit Credit Unions With Malware On CD
redsoxh8r writes "Online criminals have taken to a decidedly low-tech method for distributing the latest batch of targeted malware: mailing infected CDs to credit unions. The discs have been showing up at credit unions around the country recently, a throwback to the days when viruses and Trojans were distributed via floppy disk. The scam is elegant in its simplicity. The potential thieves are mailing letters that purport to come from the National Credit Union Administration, the federal agency that charters and insures credit unions, and including two CDs in the package. The letter is a fake fraud alert from the NCUA, instructing recipients to review the training materials contained on the discs. However, the CDs are loaded with malware rather than training programs." According to the linked article, the infected CDs were (or at least may have been) part of a penetration test, rather than an actual attack.
Mod parent up. Everyone who reads slashdot WANTS to think that they are technically inclined. Those who are unable or unwilling to distinguish between pentesters, hackers, crackers, script kiddies, and the myriad other classes of people out there are only deluding themselves about their technical abilities.
Oh - wait. Maybe I'm deluding myself. Slashdot. I actually read arguments here that Windows is better than Linux for no better reason than an author is afraid of the CLI. Let me shut up and slink out of here - I've done nothing but embarrass myself by talking to the wrong audience.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
Get the fuck over yourself. 'Hacker' is a synonym for 'cracker' and has been for nearly thirty years. Language, slang, and jargon - they all mutate and change over time. Grow up and get with the times.
Why are they prohibited from doing so? Many languages may have official language regulators, but English does not. What makes you more authoritative than them?
Which begs the questions: "In what country can you marry your dog and what brand of peanut butter does he prefer ? (No hiding behind feminine pronouns for you sweetheart)
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
Nobody told you? So many people use the phrase erroneously that the erroneous use has come into common usage and is now correct! ROTFLMAO
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
At least one financial institution in this country realizes what a horrible security risk Windows is!
Of course they came to this realization entirely by chance, and money was the motivator to start using Linux as the client OS anyway...
Sleep: A completely inadequate substitution for Caffeine.