RE: Scary article in Wall Street Journal today
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870439880457507110383415053
6.html
The diagram shows that the attack still required the end user to click
and download a file and execute it. Conceptually, this is no worse than
running downloading hackme.exe and double clicking on it. There is an
inherent risk when running any sort of untrusted software, on linux or
on windows.
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul E Condon [mailto:pecondon@mesanetworks.net]
Sent: February 18, 2010 2:25 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Scary article in Wall Street Journal today
Today in Wall Street Journal (pg 3 in US edition), there is an article
about hacker break-ins to computers via the internet. Mentioned as the
method of break-in are spyware called ZeuS, and Firefox browser, but no
mention of what OS are aflicted.
I assume most of the affected computers are running some version of
Microsoft Windows, but is this also a threat to Linux, and, in
particular, Debian with Iceweasel? Where can I look to read a discussion
in more detail than this issue merits on this list?
e.g. How does ZeuS work? And what does it do?
TIA
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Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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