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Keylogging Used To Catch Bank Crackers

Posted by Zonk on from the valuable-bits dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Even the submitter didn't read the article!! by akintayo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    sorry, i didn't read the headline

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  2. Re:Even the submitter didn't read the article!! by bcmm · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    That's what the TV version of the BBC news has been saying all day too.

    LOL.
    I know you're probably more used to the website, but that is BBC news.
    It stands for British Broadcasting Corporation. It was originally only radio and television.
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  3. Re:Even the submitter didn't read the article!! by R.D.Olivaw · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    well, you could argue that posting on the web is some form of broadcasting. After all it means transmitting something to the public. In any case you can't blame GP for pointing out that it was the TV version. Otherwise how would you distinguish it from the website?

  4. Re:Even the submitter didn't read the article!! by RollingThunder · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    First it was RTFA, then RTFSummary, now RTFTitle? ;)

  5. Re:Even the submitter didn't read the article!! by a+whoabot · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I've had one article I've submitted accepted and the headline was changed from the one I submitted it with. As far as I know this is standard procedure: the editor chooses a headline he likes, could be the one submitted, could not.

    The actual writeup seems to pretty clearly say that it was the hackers using the keyloggers, the headline says the opposite. Probably an editorial mistake.