Gang Arrested For Stealing Millions Using ZeuS

Orome1 writes "Nineteen people were arrested yesterday in the UK and are suspected of being part of an Eastern European gang that used the ZeuS Trojan to steal online banking credentials from unsuspecting victims and siphon around £2 million per month to their accounts."

Re:Shouldn't Software Houses Be Held Accountable?

[Spad]

Why though? If Joe User is dumb enough to run "JustinBieberNaked.exe" as root/admin/whatever then no amount of OS security will prevent the machine from being compromised. The weakest point of any system is always between the keyboard and the chair.

Now if you're talking clear negligence in not fixing known issues, etc. then perhaps you have a case, but then why drawn the line at big companies, surely everyone should be equally liable even if they're a one-man operation working out of their bedroom?

Re:Shouldn't Software Houses Be Held Accountable?

[Errol backfiring]

Should builders be accountable if your back door can be cracked with a simple crowbar? Breaking in is easier then keeping things or people out. In fact, it is so difficult to keep people out, that security is only added for "too easy" breaches. And then raised as necessary. And off course it must be used wisely. For a lot of vulnerabilities, you still have to invite the vampire in first.

Re:FREE KEVIN

[Anonymous Coward]

"regardless of how you "usually" see it."

In the quote above the word "usually" is the only word *not* in quotes.
The correct usage is:
"regardless of how you 'usually' see it."

Re:Shouldn't Software Houses Be Held Accountable?

[Jurily]

You sound like a person blaming women being raped because she dresses sexy.

The people we're talking about are not just dressing sexy, they're walking in a prison, pulling their pants down and yelling "Come and get it, boys!".

Re:why not

[Anonymous Coward]

ZeuS, you dolt

you have a point...

[KingAlanI]

in your commandline entries.
If Linux gets more popular, porn.wmv.exe is just going to become porn.ogg.rpm or something.

I don't think either of the sex analogies capture the "doing something stupid but don't know how stupid it is" essence.