One in ten online shoppers faces Yuletide attack
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| Big insecurity chief, Micheal Greene, from PC Tools reckons that one in
| ten online shoppers are going to face an attack from Sypware, Adware,
| Aalware or Steal-your-indenity-ware. With online shopping reaching
| $10 billion during last years holiday season, this is prime time for
| phishers and hackers to be plying their trade.
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| Greene continues by saying that many people simply aren't aware that
| online shopping can cause problems exposing them to indentity theft
| and infection of their PC's.
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Yesterday:
Pervy hacker gets ten years
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| Thirty-six year-old Adrian Ringland of Ilkeston in Derbyshire pleaded
| guilty to forcing schoolgirls to send him explicit pictures after
| having infected their computers with a Trojan horse. The man posed
| as a teen in chatrooms and gained the trust of the girls, before
| planting malicious software onto their PCs. He masked the Trojan
| as a picture of himself, but once opened, he had full access to
| their computers and used the Trojan to blackmail the teens into
| sending explicit pictures.
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| [...]
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| Security folks over at Sophos are warning that it's only a matter
| of time before this happens again - "These children will not be the
| last to be abused via the internet using spyware," senior
| technology consultant for Sophos Graham Cluley said.
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