> I'm not sure what to make of comments about phishing sites I came across > here > > http://www.theregister.com/2007/10/03/ebay_paypal_online_banking/ > > as follows: > > "These things are incredibly sophisticated, and when they take over a > computer, most [users] don't know it," he said. "With every single > phishing site [Washington Mutual has] shutdown, not one person was aware > been aware that their machine was compromised and used for phishing. > That includes university servers and company servers and personal PCs > and all sorts of things." > > More interesting is that most of the compromised machines were not > Windows machines. "The vast majority of [the phishing sites] we saw were > on rootkit-ed Linux boxes, which was rather startling. We expected a > predominance of Microsoft boxes and that wasn't the case." > > Any thoughts?
You missed the next line off your quote: "This pleased Microsoft's head of Silicon Valley PR, who served as a conference sponsor." Hmmm.... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
