On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:25:04 -0700, 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.
What scares me most is seeing a newspaper media like WSJ wrongly using the term "hacking" for such activities... really stumped. I thought that only happened on my village O:-) > 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? I don't think so. It seems targeted to be installed and operate under windows systems¹. > 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? Wikipedia² has a small article about ZeuS nature. ¹ http://www.fortiguard.com/analysis/zeusanalysis.html#6 ² http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus_(trojan_horse) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
