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Topic: Hacker Plot Hijacks PC's For Sex Sites
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Gerard S. Cohen
Jedi Master Film Handler
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Posts: 975
From: Forest Hills, NY, USA
Registered: Sep 2001
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posted 07-11-2003 06:54 PM
July 11, 2003 Hackers Hijack PC's for Sex Sites By JOHN SCHWARTZ From The New York Times "More than a thousand unsuspecting Internet users around the world have recently had their computers hijacked by hackers, who computer security experts say are using them for pornographic Web sites.
The hijacked computers, which are chosen by the hackers apparently because they have high-speed connections to the Internet, are secretly loaded with software that makes them send explicit Web pages advertising pornographic sites and offer to sign visitors up as customers.
Unless the owner of the hijacked computer is technologically sophisticated, the activity is likely to go unnoticed. The program, which only briefly downloads the pornographic material to the usurped computer, is invisible to the computer's owner. It apparently does not harm the computer or disturb its operation.
The hackers operating the ring direct traffic to each hijacked computer in their network for a few minutes at a time, quickly rotating through a large number. Some are also used to send spam e-mail messages to boost traffic to the sites...." http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/11/technology/11HACK.html
This tech report, complete with schematic, details how an internet sleuth tracked more than 1,000 personal and business computers worldwide that were being used to funnel porno advertising, probably by a Russian ring.
So now we may understand better the problems Brad and the Film-tech monitors face in securing band-width from the depredations of such internet thieves.
The good news is that Mr.Smith, the investigator finds that "The rogue program does not affect the Apple Macintosh...or computers running variants of the Unix operating system." And you can prevent the intrusion by installing a firewall. [ 07-12-2003, 02:14 PM: Message edited by: Gerard S. Cohen ]
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