The Big City

This stupid story claims that Bogus blogs snare fresh victims without having a single example of any victim being snared by a bogus blog. It’s a terrific example of the sort of extremely bad tech journalism that the BBC excels in. They have just fallen for a load of hype published by some no-mark parasitic consultancy company.

Anyone visiting the baited blog and falling victim to the keylogger could find that they have bank accounts rifled by the phishing gang behind the bogus website.

What nonsense. The truth is that anyone who downloads and installs a program that installs a keylogger without their anti-virus software noticing and who then uses an online banking service with terrible security might risk losing money. All four online banks that I use either ask for individual letters from my password in a different order each time or ask for different information on every visit. Even if I was foolish enough to accidentally install a keylogger it would take a very long time for someone to gather enough information to get access to my money.