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Things Not to Do When Job Hunting

Wrote a Word macro virus that printed out his resume and demanded a job or he would write another malware to delete hard drives. Michael Buen, the author of the WM97/Michael-B Word macro virus, printed out his resume on Fridays towards the end of the month in infected documents. "Warning: If I don't get a stable job by the end of the month I will release a third virus that will remove all folders in the Primary Hard Disk," Buen warned. There was no applicable law to prosecute Buen at the time, according to the Philippines Supreme court.

The Importance of Not Reusing Emails

Government authorities took years to track down a hacker who attacked Department of Defense computers. He was arrested after an email address used during the attack showed up in a resume posted on online job boards. Eduard Lucian Mandru's 2006 hack of the U.S. Department of Defense computer system went unsolved for years. Authorities knew the attacker's email address and came across it three years ago on a résumé that he'd posted on numerous job boards online.

Hospital Audits Catch Snoopy Insiders

It seems that medical “professionals” can’t resist looking up the case files of celebrity patients even if they don’t have any need to access the information. It’s easy to understand why star-struck hospital personnel can’t resist looking up celebrity medical files. But these days even peeking can cost health workers their jobs. In recent years there have been egregious cases where celebrity patient data, perhaps most intimate of all personal information, have been lifted from hospital files and leaked to the tabloid media, presumably with money changing hands. Today, there are laws and regulations banning this kind of snooping. Modern computer systems generate audit trails so hospitals can comply with privacy laws. So hospital administrators along with law enforcement agencies and celebrity lawyers can find out who has been peeking at and even stealing patient information.

Kelly Osborne's ‘Celebrity Hacker’

A hacker broke into Kelly Osborne’s email account and forwarded new messages to personal account.An individual hacked into Kelly Osborne's email account to read all her saved messages. The account was modified to forward new messages to another account, which turned out to be the hacker's personal account. "This seemed like a pretty easy trail to follow," said Alan Wlasuk, CEO of 403 Web Security.

License Plates Can Be Traced

A hacker infected MySpace accounts, bragged about the exploit online and posted pictures of himself with his car's license plate in the background. Samy Kamkar was responsible for the Samy Worm that infected more than 1 million MySpace accounts in 2006. He boasted what he did on a blog, which contained a picture of him with a license plate in the background, which was then used to find Samy.


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