Botmaster as security consultant. Social engineering on the inside.
Nice job of HR checking someone
out.
A Los Angeles man on Friday admitted infecting
250,000 computers and stealing the identities of thousands of people by
wiretapping their communications and accessing their bank
accounts.
Schiefer worked by day as an information security consultant but was a well-known “Botmaster” among the underground network of hackers skilled in so-called “botnet attacks.”
Schiefer also admitted defrauding the Dutch Internet advertising company Simpel Internet - who signed him up as a consultant - of more than $19,000. He installed his spyware program on approximately 150,000 of the Dutch company’s computers.
There still is no patch for stupidity.
Schiefer worked by day as an information security consultant but was a well-known “Botmaster” among the underground network of hackers skilled in so-called “botnet attacks.”
Schiefer also admitted defrauding the Dutch Internet advertising company Simpel Internet - who signed him up as a consultant - of more than $19,000. He installed his spyware program on approximately 150,000 of the Dutch company’s computers.
There still is no patch for stupidity.
Posted: Sat - November 10, 2007 at 08:21 AM