When Chinese hackers infected more than 500,000 Web sites with malicious software designed to steal personal information, visitors to those sites received something more disturbing: an invisible password-stealing program on their machines, and an eerie silence from the owners of the sites they'd visited.
A report released Wednesday by Infosecurity Europe revealed that not only is chocolate good bait for getting someone's password, so is an attractive appearance.
I haven't hidden the fact that I've been a victim of ID theft before. I've also had the good fortune to be one of the employees whose past IBM employee data was lost. This story, however, is a wake-up call: you shouldn't casually trust any shareware or freeware program - or even service.
