Comments [0] posted: Aug 23, 2008 Greg O'Byrne

A TV newsanchor ruins another anchor's career.  Newsworthy on its own account, but we here at techRivet are much more interested on HOW he did it.

Fired Philly TV anchor admits e-mail hacking

He hacked her email account by buying a key-logger and sniffing her passwords.

He bought a keystroke-logging device to get her passwords in August 2006, and intercepted e-mails from Lane's personal and work accounts, prosecutors said.

You live in a world where someone that in all likely-hood has the technical know-how within one standard deviation of the average computer user, has the technical savvy to know about keyloggers and effectively put one to use.

That's remarkable in many ways not the least of which would be as a caution. 


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tags: [accelerating change | hack | key logging | security]


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