BOINC used as a Trojan…

From this article:
http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/85807/from/rss09

What the heck, it is bad enough I have to allocate as many resources as I have to avoid being inundated with spam in both email (6000+ a month) and blog (2500+ a month), but now something I’ve helped to build is being abused.

I guess the criminal element of the world just is not content with crapping in their yard, they have to crap in everyone else’s too, even when there isn’t any money involved.

I had heard about this early last week, Carl came up with a clever solution for CPDN. Hopefully this won’t be all that common.

—– Rom

This post was last modified on December 13, 2020 4:02 pm

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