{"id":847,"date":"2016-01-20T08:13:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T14:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-internet-guy.com\/?p=847"},"modified":"2016-01-20T08:43:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T14:43:22","slug":"847-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-internet-guy.com\/?p=847","title":{"rendered":"The usefulness of a compromised PC… to a hacker."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA few years back, when I was a reporter at The Washington Post, I put together a chart listing the various ways that miscreants can monetize hacked PCs<\/a>. The project was designed to explain simply and visually to the sort of computer user who can\u2019t begin to fathom why miscreants would want to hack into his PC. \u201cI don\u2019t bank online, I don\u2019t store sensitive information on my machine! I only use it to check email. What could hackers possibly want with this hunk of junk?,\u201d are all common refrains from this type of user.<\/em><\/p>\n

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A few years back, when I was a reporter at The Washington Post, I put together a chart listing the various ways that miscreants can monetize hacked PCs. The project was designed to explain simply and visually to the sort of computer user who can\u2019t begin to fathom why miscreants…<\/p>\n

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