Computer hackers steal Carson funds
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| Cyber-thieves were able to shift nearly $450,000 from the city's
| general fund last week by using a program that was able to mimic
| the computer strokes made by Carson's financial officer. Each
| time Avilla logged on to her city-provided laptop in the morning,
| someone was -- virtually -- looking over her shoulder, recording
| every single keystroke.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hackers1jun01,0,2083352.story?coll=la-home-local
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Swedish bank hit by 'biggest ever' online heist
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| Haxdoor typically installs keyloggers to record keystrokes, and
| hides itself using a rootkit. The payload of the .ki variant of
| the Trojan was activated when users attempted to log in to the
| Nordea online banking site. According to the bank, users were
| redirected to a false home page, where they entered important
| log-in information, including log-in numbers.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39285547,00.htm
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports. "Despite all that, the net is still working,
| which is pretty amazing. It's pretty resilient," he said.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
Virus compromises 200,000 records at Community College of Southern Nevada
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| The personal records of nearly 200,000 students were compromised when a
| virus attacked a Microsoft Windows 2003 Server at the Community College
| of Southern Nevada.
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http://www.scmagazine.com/us/news/article/658373/virus-compromises-200000-records-community-college-southern-nevada/
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