Re: Largest Ever Online Robbery Hits Swedish Bank

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Randall M wrote:

> I've said a million times. "Knowledge" is power. Spend a million on
> educating and this type of crap will cease.
 
I've said it two million times. Education won't work. You can't even 
educate people to drive a safe distance from the car in front, you can't 
educate people to add ten years to their life by giving up smoking. If you 
can't do either of those, for the immense budget that is spent on them, 
the budget for educating people on computer security would have to exceed 
the budget for the war in Iraq.
  
 
> Thank You 
> Randall M  
>
> From: Zonk 
> Posted At: Friday, January 19, 2007 1:09 PM
> Posted To: Technology
> Conversation: Slashdot
> Subject: Largest Ever Online Robbery Hits Swedish Bank
>
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> ukhackster writes "A Swedish bank has fallen victim to what experts believe
> is the biggest online robbery ever. A Russian gang apparently used
> keylogging software to steal around one million dollars. It appears that
> most of the victims weren't running security protection. The bank is
> refunding everyone who lost money (even if they hadn't taken precautions) -
> good news for the victims, but not really an incentive to take more care in
> future. From the article: 'Nordea believes that 250 customers have been
> affected by the fraud, after falling victim to phishing emails containing
> the Trojan. According to McAfee, Swedish police believe Russian organised
> criminals are behind the attacks. Currently, 121 people are suspected of
> being involved. The attack started by a tailormade Trojan sent in the name
> of the bank to some of its clients, according to McAfee. The sender
> encouraged clients to download a "spam fighting" application.'" 
>
>  <http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=bNCKMA> 
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> Read <http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/78052030/article.pl>
> more

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