Keylogging Used To Catch Bank Crackers

An anonymous reader writes "BBC News is reporting that the British police National High Tech Crime Unit has foiled an attempted fraud by hackers using keylogging software. The London branch of the Sumitomo Mitsui bank of Japan was the target, and a person has been arrested in Israel after being identified as the recipient of an attempted electronic transfer of UKP13.9m."

Comments

Slashdot story incorrect

[Anonymous Coward]

Um.. yeah, this article synopsis would be wrong.

From the article it links to:

They managed to infiltrate the system with keylogging software that would have enabled them to track every button pressed on computer keyboards.

The hackers were attempting to use keylogging software.. there's nothing in the bbc article whatsoever about how the police caught them, let alone if they were caught using keylogging software (which is what the synopsis says).

Apparantly, not even the editors read slashdot stories :)

Precedence rules.

[kahei]

It's a matter of operator precedence being poorly defined in English, leading to the ambiguity known as a 'dangling modifier'.

Parentheses could have solved the problem:

The police foiled (hackers using keyloggers).

But parentheses aren't used like that in natural language. In English the right way to do it would be more like this:

The police foiled hackers who were using keyloggers.

The 'who' strongly binds the entity before it to the entity after it, indicating that 'using keyloggers' is a predicate of 'hackers'. Thus the modifier, now tightly bound, dangles no more.