I followed a link from my Google home page to WIRED's Blog network, and clicked on a link there to read about another news story.
Click it if you want, but don't click on anything else at that page until you read the rest of this post.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/h...r-reported.html
It's a story about a Turkish hacker that sells devices to find out ppl's pin# at ATM machines. At the bottom of the article, it has his ad. If you click on it, it takes you to his web-page, where you can apparently buy his devices.
WTF?!?!?
Since when does a 'reputable' organization tell you where to buy equipment to get into other ppl's bank accts? What favor were they doing me by sending me to his WEBSITE? Stupid effers sent me to a Turkish hacker's website! (Actually, the address code was from SAMOA, but a Turkish hacker runs it, I presume)
No apparent harm done - Firefox 3, noscript, firewall, antivirus, and a couple of other utilities hopefully kept me safe, but I guess I'll have to do some additional scanning.
Here's the ad. I capped it in as a whole window, to show it in context at WIRED's site. There were a lot of frames I didn't grab, but it's content is pretty clear from what I got.
And here's the page it takes you to if you click on the ad:
I didn't get to the forums, as I had to register, but who knows what they might have put on that page to attack my system?
I wasn't quite sure what the ad was. I thought that maybe it was a representation of the ad for the article. I trusted WIRED, but figured I was taking a risk clicking on it. Ultimately I just had to know if they were REALLY linking to the site, so I did a quick appraisal of my security, and clicked.
I would've thought they'd disable any actual clicking thru to the site, and they had NO text related to the ad warning ppl. Essentially, they ran an ad for these criminals.
Mind-blowing. Watch what you click, even at TRUSTED sites.
EDIT: OK, apparently that isn't the Turkish hacker's website, merely a place where you can go to find out where you can get various nefarious equipment and programs. Not much better, IMHO.
Click it if you want, but don't click on anything else at that page until you read the rest of this post.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/h...r-reported.html
It's a story about a Turkish hacker that sells devices to find out ppl's pin# at ATM machines. At the bottom of the article, it has his ad. If you click on it, it takes you to his web-page, where you can apparently buy his devices.
WTF?!?!?
Since when does a 'reputable' organization tell you where to buy equipment to get into other ppl's bank accts? What favor were they doing me by sending me to his WEBSITE? Stupid effers sent me to a Turkish hacker's website! (Actually, the address code was from SAMOA, but a Turkish hacker runs it, I presume)
No apparent harm done - Firefox 3, noscript, firewall, antivirus, and a couple of other utilities hopefully kept me safe, but I guess I'll have to do some additional scanning.
Here's the ad. I capped it in as a whole window, to show it in context at WIRED's site. There were a lot of frames I didn't grab, but it's content is pretty clear from what I got.
And here's the page it takes you to if you click on the ad:
I didn't get to the forums, as I had to register, but who knows what they might have put on that page to attack my system?
I wasn't quite sure what the ad was. I thought that maybe it was a representation of the ad for the article. I trusted WIRED, but figured I was taking a risk clicking on it. Ultimately I just had to know if they were REALLY linking to the site, so I did a quick appraisal of my security, and clicked.
I would've thought they'd disable any actual clicking thru to the site, and they had NO text related to the ad warning ppl. Essentially, they ran an ad for these criminals.
Mind-blowing. Watch what you click, even at TRUSTED sites.
EDIT: OK, apparently that isn't the Turkish hacker's website, merely a place where you can go to find out where you can get various nefarious equipment and programs. Not much better, IMHO.