Risks of renting PCs

CNN has an AP story up about someone who had installed keystroke logging software on a bunch of machines at Kinkos in the New York area. This strikes me as common sense. Any machine in a public area isn't going to be completely secure.

NEW YORK (AP) -- For more than a year, unbeknownst to people who used Internet terminals at Kinko's stores in New York, Juju Jiang was recording what they typed, paying particular attention to their passwords.

Jiang had secretly installed, in at least 14 Kinko's copy shops, software that logs individual keystrokes. He captured more than 450 user names and passwords, and used them to access and open bank accounts online.

The case, which led to a guilty plea earlier this month after Jiang was caught, highlights the risks in using public Internet terminals at cybercafes, libraries, airports and other establishments. [CNN]

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