Mc Veigh Voyuer Virus

Crackers were able to exploit Americans’ homicidal mania in order to gain access to their machines. A trojan, described as a ‘pirated’ video of the McVeigh execution, was circulated in chat rooms. Upon execution of the ‘video’ (not McVeigh,) the trojan installed the usual suite of tools for someone to take control of the system.

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This entry was written by Bill Humphries and posted on June 13, 2001 at 12:00 am and filed under culture. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the Atom feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.