From: Ad 

Rich Gauszka wrote:
> So when will the CIA launch it's own trojans? Can't have the Russians win
> the cyberwar
>
> Will "Trojan parity!" be the new neocon battle cry?
>
> Will the NSAkey in Windows be unleased?
>


http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39754

"A NEWER AND DECIDEDLY more dastardly version of the Russian Gozi
virus, which uses key stroke logging capabilities to steal bank account
details, has been loosed onto the Interweb, insecurity experts have warned.

The program is an updated version of the Gozi Trojan horse program which
uses advanced Winsock2 functionality to hack into encrypted SSL (Secure
Sockets Layer) streams and send the data back to a server in Russia. "


Ages back I was saying that the Russians/FSB harboured their crackers with
a view towards their usage in an interconnected world......

So who wants to bet that the FSB has knowledge of the above & others
like it......& that the CIA/NSA etc have similar pieces of code....

Remember that various non-US intel/security orgs mandated a move away from
closed source/windows on the basis of a presumption based possibly on
knowledge that the US did possess such code....

Adam

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