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Re: Scary article in Wall Street Journal today



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Paul E Condon wrote:
> 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

Fresh from the net-security RSS feed:
http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8884

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Sarunas Burdulis
Systems Administrator
Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College
http://math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas
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