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Virtual strippers help spammers

http://www.dazereader.com/24001065.htm A new web scam uses men's fascination with half-naked women to help bypass spamguards.

The striptease is the latest attempt to defeat so-called CAPTCHA systems, which is short for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Those safeguards require users to prove they are human by reading wavy, oddly shaped jumbles of letters and numbers that appear in an image and typing them out.

In the new scam, an icon of an alluring woman suddenly appears on a Windows computer infected by a virus. After clicking on the icon, the user sees a photo of an attractive woman who vows to take off an article of clothing each time the jumble of figures next to her is entered.

But the woman never fully undresses, and after several passwords are entered the program restarts, possibly enticing unsuspecting users into trying again.

I have to agree with this security geek's assessment:

"I have to hand it to them," Ferguson said, laughing. "The social engineering aspect here is pretty clever."

Could this technology be used for good? Could the power of horniness be harnessed as a source of cheap, inexhaustible energy?

 

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