I stumbled across a salutary tale of how easy it is to be hacked and have your machine taken over, How a friend's computer got hacked and hijacked .
It is a straightforward description of how easy it is to move from having a system which you assume is "safe" to one which, by virtue of combination of circumstances, a little carelessness and complacency perhaps, has been compromised without you even spotting that it has happened.
Posted by Andrew Watt at October 17, 2003 11:41 AM