Computer science and criminal justice students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have uncovered a series of fraudulent e-mails that claim to link to video of Sen. Barack Obama's acceptance speech, but could put a visitor's personal information in the hands of criminals.
According to Gary Warner, UAB's director of research in computer forensics, the spam links to Web sites registered Tuesday in China.
Visiting the Web site requires the user to install an "Adobe Flash Player" to watch the speech. Installing it will cause all user IDs and passwords, whether for online banking, online stores, e-mail, or even chat programs, to be sent to the criminal's computer.
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