http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/weekinreview/11jacobs.html By Andrew Jacobs The New York Times April 9, 2010 BEIJING - The reality -- and my fears -- dawned only slowly. For weeks, friends and colleagues complained I had not answered their e-mail messages. I swore I had not received them. My e-mail program began crashing almost daily. But only when all my contacts disappeared for the second time did suspicion push me to act. I dug deep inside my Yahoo settings, and I shuddered. Incoming messages had been forwarding to an unfamiliar e-mail address, one presumably typed in by intruders who had gained access to my account. I'd been hacked. That phrase has been popping up a lot lately on Web chats and at dinner parties in China, where scores of foreign reporters have discovered intrusions into their e-mail accounts. But unlike malware that trawls for bank account passwords or phishing gambits that peddle lonely and sexually adventurous Russian women, these cyberattacks appear inspired by good old-fashioned espionage. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Sun Apr 11 2010 - 22:23:33 PDT
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