Innovative ways to fool people

Innovative ways to fool people
Scott Granneman, 2006-05-04

Scott Granneman's latest column looks at recent security examples where people have been fooled in increasingly innovative ways: from keyloggers used in a massive bank heist and new Trojans that encrypt data and request ransom money, to real financial rip-offs that extend out from online virtual gaming worlds like World of Warcraft.

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Innovative ways to fool people 2006-05-05
Anonymous

Great article Scott. Loved the story about the dummy soldiers. The retreating allied forces did something similar at Gallipoli by tying one end of a string to rifle triggers and the other end to a can that had water dripping into it. This then set off the rifle when the can filled up. I tried to thi...

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Innovative ways to fool people 2006-05-05
Anonymous

Speaking of virtual worlds making real money you forgot THE greatest ones: stock exchanges. What are they other than virtual worlds?
For example, the rising price of oil made hundreds of billions of dollars to some, based purely on speculations that somebody will do this or that, while the produci...

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The Greatest President Ever? 2006-05-05
Spencer

Second paragraph. Certainly it wasn't Abraham Lincoln. He was a political opportunist and morally insane. He didn't "free the slaves" either. That's bunk. good article, though......

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Innovative ways to fool people 2006-05-10
Roger

Great article, Scott.

But am I the only one who thinks Sumitomo Mitsui still doesn't get it? Their response to this attack is to make a change that makes one particular attack mode slightly harder.

The more fundamental issue is that they have a system from which it is possible to steal hundre...

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Innovative ways to fool people 2006-05-10
Anonymous

I wonder if there is any truth to a device I found for sale online. The seller claims that will capture keystrokes from the RF leakage from the cord connecting the keyboard to the computer. All a person would have to do is sit down with a bank employee and open a checking account. You can figure o...

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