Comments on: Cyber Attack: Online Bank Heist

By: Donabell C. De Apera

Donabell C. De Apera — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:59:38 +0000

bewitching the strategy has the same impact to determine where those saboteurs of projects and thieves even hackers are.

By: Mac

Mac — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:18:25 +0000

You should probably mention that Symantec rates this as a Low threat level, and lists the number of known infections at “0–49″…
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2007–121718-1009–99

By: Arthur

Arthur — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:42:35 +0000

An SSH connection to the bank will do nothing really, neither will PGP authentication since the the Trojan has infected the system itself and was able to pick up the password when you typed it in. The virus could easily be adapted to pick up the SSH password. Nevertheless, what in the world will the user do once they SSHed into one of the bank’s machines? Run some scripts? Sure.…
All I can really say is, if you’re using Windows, make sure that you never come close the Internet Explorer, use Firefox or Opera. That, and an updated anti-virus is your main line of defense. Also, take a look at Spybot Search and Destroy to clean your spyware on a regular basis.
But honestly, sucks to be you if you’re using Windows. If you really want security, choose a Mac or an Ubuntu Linux loaded Dell or HP for your next computer purchase. Both Linux and Mac are easy to use if you take just _a little bit_ of time to learn them, the former is getting easier with every release and the latter is already high quality and very easy to use.

By: SteveA

SteveA — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:51:51 +0000

I run regularly a virus check on mu computer. Almost every time, it shows a Trojan Horse. After investigating it, it seems like I get it from the net while I am surfing. Very good idea to run virus check.

By: max

max — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:50:44 +0000

Damn. I thought you only became a pro-level blogger if you could write in something close to the language of the blog. I waz rong.

By: Nicholas Kamm

Nicholas Kamm — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:37:08 +0000

Please send your articles through an editor, the errors are painful to read.