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McAfee Avert Labs Blog - “Avert Labs Darwin Award” Nomination
Now this is funny!
“Avert Labs Darwin Award” Nomination
Thursday September 27, 2007 at 4:29 pm CST
Posted by Hiep Dang
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This article literally made me laugh out loud, so I had to write about it.
I hope you’ve heard of the Darwin Awards. This would be my nomination for the Avert Labs Darwin Award (if we had such an award).
Evidently, a company called WorkSpace had a batch of their Apple computers stolen from their office. One of these computers had an application installed called Flickrbooth, which has the ability to automatically take snapshots with a webcam and upload them to a designated Flickr account.
Well, a few days ago, they discovered pictures of the new “owner” of their computers on their Flickr account. I present to you the face of today’s modern cybercriminal:
I guess this is a low-cost way of Lo-jacking your computer. 
Source: Computer Security Research - McAfee Avert Labs Blog
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus