[AccessD] OT: Funny Tech story

And if you run it backwards does it say "Paul is dead"? 


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Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 12:38 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Funny Tech story

You laugh, but that has been called an attack vector.  the idea is that as
you browse to an infected site, a sound plays which causes the voice
recognition to do something.

Sounds silly but...

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Drew Wutka wrote:
> I posted this to OT already, and got some good chuckles.  I know it's 
> Wednesday (hump day), but I thought this was too funny not to share 
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> Yesterday, I gave our GM (CEO) his new Laptop.  It's an HP Tablet PC, 
> with Vista Business on it.  I'm really starting to like Vista.
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> However, he just called me up, about 15 minutes ago, and he was in a 
> panic.  He said that he was in a meeting offsite, connected into 
> Marlow with a VPN connection.  He had left the meeting momentarily, 
> and when he got back, there was an email composing on his screen.  He 
> then said he was sitting there watching this 'mystery person' typing 
> away an email on his computer.
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> Now, my first reaction is a little skeptical.  What hacker is going to 
> get into a PC that's on a pretty tight VPN, to create an email?!?!  
> It's VERY easy to spoof an email to be from someone else.... But then 
> our GM began reading some of the email. It included names of people at 
> Marlow, along with Marlow information.
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> So how would a hacker know this kind of stuff.....  so then I asked 
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> "Is your voice recognition turned on?"
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> LOL!  Sure enough, he had Vista's voice recognition turned on, and 
> while he was out of the room, someone must have said something along 
> the lines of 'Creat an email', and Vista was happily chugging along 
> and transcribing what it was hearing in the meeting!  LOL.
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