How Phishers Think, Act, and Make a Profit 133
whitehartstag writes with a write up of "the excellent session at Black Hat that detailed 'how phishers create sites, share info and code, and basically are lazy.' They store their stolen data 'on websites that they have hacked into, or on [publically available] sites like guestbooks. And even worse, they are not protecting their stolen data ... which means that all one needs to do to find this info is to reverse engineer a real phisher's website, look at their PHP script, and find out where they are storing the data.'"
Re:How is this useful for law-abiding citizens? (Score:2, Funny)
Hmm (Score:2, Funny)
Hey! (Score:5, Funny)
"...[Phishers] basically are lazy"
I'm lazy, maybe I could be a phisher king...
"...all one needs to do to find this info is to reverse engineer a real phisher's website, look at their PHP script..."
Shit, I instrinsically fail.
The Phisher Job Description (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Hmm (Score:5, Funny)
The next logical step would be hackers hacking hacker-hacking hackers.
Old Hat (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Google (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Old Hat (Score:2, Funny)
Confucius say:
There is black hat and white hat, but your sig is just old hat.
Re:Hmm (Score:4, Funny)
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo [wikipedia.org].
The law will protect us! (Score:3, Funny)
And even worse, they are not protecting their stolen data
Clearly, the answer is to pass a law requiring that phishers disclose all breaches of the personal data they have collected. That will undoubtly shame them into increasing their security to better protect our personal information.
Re:Old Hat (Score:5, Funny)
Give a man fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set him on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
And even worse (Score:3, Funny)
Re:One time... (Score:5, Funny)
"even who-is'd him for them in the e-mail (it appeared to be an Indian name).... I called the number on the ad... He had a thick Indian accent. Same guy? Coincidence?"
No way that was a coincidence. I mean, how many Indians are there?
Re:Old Hat (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hmm (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hmm (Score:3, Funny)
Oh yeah? Well I see your smelly Buffalo, and raise you a James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher [wikipedia.org]
I wish I knew about this while I was in high school and had to write boring 500 word essays. A few of these and I would be nearly done! :D
You know, this one time... (Score:5, Funny)
... I saw two white guys in a day. And was like, whoa -- are you folks following me?
Then I saw another one. I knew it. Never trust white guys.
-- A white guy (but just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean I'm not out to get me!)
Re:first post (Score:1, Funny)
Yeah, there's something wrong with the world when the trolls are more interesting than the on-topic posts.
How Phishers Think, Act, and Make a Profit: (Score:3, Funny)
2. Somebody set up us the phishing website
3. ???
4. Profit!
Re:One time... (Score:3, Funny)
> Because obviously everyone has to nick-pick every fact...
Umm, yeah, that would be "nit-pick".