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Features => May 06 - Star Hacks, Episode V: The Empire Hacks Back => Topic started by: don on April 28, 2006, 04:04:46 PM



Title: Empire Hacks Back - Foreseeing the Future?
Post by: don on April 28, 2006, 04:04:46 PM
Apparently Ed Skoudis is also psychic. The bad guys have something that looks like the vaderbot! Internet Storm Center Reader, Nick Hawley, reported the following to the handlers:

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It seems that Ed's Hack Quiz may have become exceptionally useful in light of a new virus/class of virus.  It seems that what Sophos is calling "Trojan.Ransom.A" locks the console so that the system can only be accessed remotely.  Check out http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojransoma.html.

Seems that the empire really IS hacking back...

What do you know... educational and fun!  8)

Don