It's not too hard to find information about anyone when they post every detail of their lives on the Internet.
Facebook's defence to that situation is completely unfounded. The 'real life criminals' could use bots, which would give the impression of coming from a 'trusted' ISP. They could also use dedicated/vps hosts. I somehow doubt Facebook would greatly suspect someone who is seen to be on Ecatel; for example. And that's a network that would probably be used by criminals for this very purpose.
[quote=BBC]In a traditional botnet, a network of computers are infected by a virus to allow a hi-tech criminal to use them remotely.[/quote]
[B]HIGH TECH CRIMINAL HOLY FUCK[/B]
aka someone who downloaded a program from the internet
[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;33085958]It's not too hard to find information about anyone when they post every detail of their lives on the Internet.[/QUOTE]
Indeed its absolutely stupid and scary and the same time. Governments need to start introducing smart education on the internet in schools and other services. Informing people on the does and don't and mainly telling people to use common scene. Because half of the information theft people face while on the internet could of easily been avoided by common scene and basic knowledge of the internet.
[QUOTE=-n3o-;33086316]Indeed its absolutely stupid and scary and the same time. Governments need to start introducing smart education on the internet in schools and other services. Informing people on the does and don't and mainly telling people to use common scene. Because half of the information theft people face while on the internet could of easily been avoided by common scene and basic knowledge of the internet.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, it's a shame that schools before college treat the internet as some kind of horribly dangerous, unknown thing; they just block access to it and pretend it doesn't exist. At least when I went to high school only a few years ago, they seemed to think that teaching you how to type on a computer was all you needed to know about computers. Most teachers also didn't let you do research using the internet, which is directly countering the growing importance of knowing how to get valuable information from the web.
Then I got to college and all these people in my technology-related classes were completely dumbfounded by anything internet-related we would learn. With the internet being as important as it is today, it's a shame that so many people still have absolutely no clue how it works.
"Oh boy, I better add another person I don't know as friend so my number of friends is bigger even though I know absolutely nothing about that person"
This is the future of malware. With so many different OS's, security software, browser, as well as the focus on cloud, accounts are now the prey. And since so many of these attacks rely on social engineering, the attackers don't have to worry about OS market share.
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