Six Estonian natives have been arrested today and charged with a scheme that brought in $14 million in fraudulent profits.
Four million computers worldwide were hijacked, and Internet users were often re-routed to sites that helped rack of the profits via ads.
Of those computers, 500,000 were in the U.S. and included PCs being used by government agencies like NASA.
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Methinks gov't policies on computer security could use some work. What was someone at NASA doing i wonder, that allowed the computer to become infected? Is that person still working there on the payroll of our tax dollars? What is our tax money being used for by these people if stuff like this can happen?
Originally posted by CarpeSol: Methinks gov't policies on computer security could use some work. What was someone at NASA doing i wonder, that allowed the computer to become infected? Is that person still working there on the payroll of our tax dollars? What is our tax money being used for by these people if stuff like this can happen?
Happened all the time within my IT. It's called a laptop on a public network. Once you move off of our firewall, all kinds of crap can (and usually does) get on someone's computer. Most people don't know how to click on "close" or the big "X" unless it's their antivirus telling them to upgrade! (How annoying! *sarcasm*)
