Ghost robs women
Staff Writer
2008-08-04
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Dating is a common practice among men and women. It is a social habit that some may say is a need. Although some people date , there are times when they let their guard down or get used. Recent reports have surface that women are getting ripped off by men through the woman's computer while dating. The software is called Ghost. Although Ghost is a market leader, there are other imaging software that can be used.
Lets say you have a PC or Laptop in your house and, you think it is safe because your home is locked and no one has your password, you should not be fooled. If a person captures an image or takes a snapshot of your hard drive, they can restore it on another system or view the contents of it later. The Ghost software or disk imaging software can do this in 15mins or less. Women have been getting identity theft done this way. They are finding out all to late the methodology used to commit the crime.
If we look at this process, you can see anyone can do it. Your building maintenance man , friend or family member all can do this. All they need is a bootable flash card, Ghost software , external hard drive and your pc. Once the theft boots with the flash card, the software is run and an image of your hard drive is copied down to a small external hard drive which can be easily hidden. This is done with even knowing your password to your system. After this done, the person can either restore your system on another computer and hack it later or use the Ghost software to read threw your files and gain information without even known your password. The person can also return and dumped an infected system back onto your PC with out you knowing it.
There are several prevention methods that can be used. One is to keep your important files on an external hard drive with a built in password encryption, use the windows or mac operation systems to encrypt files and folders or use a third party software on your hard drive, and password protect important data files with software that you use. At the hardware level, some systems can be setup so they can only boot from the hard drive. If this option is change, it will alert you.