01 February 2009

Cybercrime threat rising sharply

Panel of "experts" in discussion at Davos. Nothing new. Identity theft, theft of goods, money, denial of Service attacks, government screw-ups and censorship...and no answers!

2 comments:

Unknown said...

What can someone take if they hack my computer?

Smokey said...

They can take over your computer and use it with a number of other computers [creating a botnet] to mount a Denial of Service attack, which can effectively close down a company's website.
They can take all your passwords by putting a keystroke counter in so that if you do any financial transactions online, they can enter your bank etc.
They can take all the addresses in your addressbook and email them pretending to be you but with a worm, a virus or a Trojan Horse in the message, which can gain them access to your friends' computers.