private-sector keystroke logger...

[Derek Atkins]

Hrm, how about a worm with a built-in HTTP server that installs itself
on some non-standard port, say TCP/28462 (to pick one at random)?

-derek

Steve Bellovin <smb at research.att.com> writes:

> It's not just the FBI, of course.  There are press reports this morning 
> of a new worm, Badtrans.b, that not only leaves behind a Trojan horse, 
> it includes a keystroke logger.  Now, that particular leakage isn't a 
> major concern, since it emails the stolen text to an account that's now 
> been shut down, but I'm sure we can all think of other ways to export 
> information like that.
> 
> 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
> 		Full text of "Firewalls" book now at http://www.wilyhacker.com
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