Friday, January 19, 2007
Why it's important to protect your home computer
A Swedish bank lost the equivalent of a million dollars when it reimbursed victims of an online scam.
It was a pretty boring scam. People got email, forged to appear like it came from the bank, urging them to install software. The software was malicious, of course. It recorded all the users's keystrokes, including passwords, and sent them off to the criminals who then logged into people's accounts and cleaned them out.
Do you trust your bank to make you whole after an incident like that?
The two ideas this should reinforce are
o Never install software unless you know where it's from
o If something comes in email, you don't know where it's from.
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It was a pretty boring scam. People got email, forged to appear like it came from the bank, urging them to install software. The software was malicious, of course. It recorded all the users's keystrokes, including passwords, and sent them off to the criminals who then logged into people's accounts and cleaned them out.
Do you trust your bank to make you whole after an incident like that?
The two ideas this should reinforce are
o Never install software unless you know where it's from
o If something comes in email, you don't know where it's from.
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