Which of course doesn't work against a close relation of keystroke logging that simply records the GET and POST requests passed by the browser, and passes those to the bad guys.
These are at least as common as keystroke loggers these days (e.g., malicious BHOs for IE).
Pretty much similar to the way Marketscore used to work. (They've changed tack in the last month, and no longer proxy infected users' traffic, just replay the HTTP requests back to Marketscore instead.) Except Google have specifically stated that they're not proxying https traffic, which is good (unlike Marketscore, which not only proxied the https traffic but also decrypted it through an ingenious man in the middle attack).
And the reason why Marketscore did that was that their parent, Comscore, could use the data gathered for website ratings. It's extremely valuable data in many ways.
Exactly: if you have a keystroke logger on your machine, that's it for your passwords.
There is an increasing problem in Australasia with Eastern European based fraudsters placing trojans onto people's machines using various well-known Windows exploits, expressly for the purpose of capturing Internet Banking passwords.
Banks here have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more, through this (and phishing) in the last six months.
It won't need to get too much worse before tw-factor authentication actually becomes economic here...
Sprinkled right through Cordwainer Smith's short stories written in the 1960s are altered animals and bio-computers. In particular one of his stories (I wish I could remember which one - "Think Blue, Count Two"?) mentions a computer made of "laminated mouse brain". Few things seem to happen today that weren't anticipated earlier by at least one sci-fi writer...
Another thing that apparently irritates Telecom is the fact that many calls to ISPs come through the local network (that Telecom own) but terminate in the network of a competitor (usually Clear). Because of various interconnect agreements, this means that Telecom must pay Clear a certain fee per minute of the connection, in effect subsidising the other ISPs. Telecom are trying to own all the numbers that internet calls terminate in so that they can avoid this fee.
I don't have any sympathy for the poor dears. If they allowed competition into the local loop these anomalies would not occur, and further, Telecom's neglect of the infrastructure leading to overloading could be fixed very quickly.
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Which of course doesn't work against a close relation of keystroke logging that simply records the GET and POST requests passed by the browser, and passes those to the bad guys.
These are at least as common as keystroke loggers these days (e.g., malicious BHOs for IE).
Pretty much similar to the way Marketscore used to work. (They've changed tack in the last month, and no longer proxy infected users' traffic, just replay the HTTP requests back to Marketscore instead.) Except Google have specifically stated that they're not proxying https traffic, which is good (unlike Marketscore, which not only proxied the https traffic but also decrypted it through an ingenious man in the middle attack).
And the reason why Marketscore did that was that their parent, Comscore, could use the data gathered for website ratings. It's extremely valuable data in many ways.
What are Google up to?
The community around Bungie's Myth II managed to get the sourcecode (legitimately) and have carbonised it themselves. It's a fantastic effort.
http://projectmagma.net/index.shtml
Exactly: if you have a keystroke logger on your machine, that's it for your passwords.
There is an increasing problem in Australasia with Eastern European based fraudsters placing trojans onto people's machines using various well-known Windows exploits, expressly for the purpose of capturing Internet Banking passwords.
Banks here have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more, through this (and phishing) in the last six months.
It won't need to get too much worse before tw-factor authentication actually becomes economic here...
Sprinkled right through Cordwainer Smith's short stories written in the 1960s are altered animals and bio-computers. In particular one of his stories (I wish I could remember which one - "Think Blue, Count Two"?) mentions a computer made of "laminated mouse brain". Few things seem to happen today that weren't anticipated earlier by at least one sci-fi writer...
The organisation you refer to is SADA, the Stockyards Area Development Association.
http://little.nhlink.net/nhlink/sada/
cheers
Another thing that apparently irritates Telecom is the fact that many calls to ISPs come through the local network (that Telecom own) but terminate in the network of a competitor (usually Clear). Because of various interconnect agreements, this means that Telecom must pay Clear a certain fee per minute of the connection, in effect subsidising the other ISPs. Telecom are trying to own all the numbers that internet calls terminate in so that they can avoid this fee.
I don't have any sympathy for the poor dears. If they allowed competition into the local loop these anomalies would not occur, and further, Telecom's neglect of the infrastructure leading to overloading could be fixed very quickly.