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City Almost Loses 450K to Keylogger

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the never-too-safe dept.

SierraPete writes "The city of Carson, California (a suburb of Los Angeles) was the target of a 6-digit theft of cash. The LA Times reports that information taken from a keylogger was used to attempt to steal $450K from the city's treasury. Quick work by the city froze most of the funds, but it drives home the importance of keeping good anti-spyware and anti-virus software updated on both corporate systems as well as systems being used from home."

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  1. why is this even happening to begin with by wizardforce · · Score: 0, Redundant

    how is it that one person has the contyrol over the entire cash flow of the city anyways? are they really spending enough cash that it is just too inconvenient for more than one person's authentication? for that matter, why is it that they even needed to login/withdraw cash from anywhere but their central location? cash on the go?

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  2. Curses by rossz · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those pesky kids and their stupid dog!

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