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Crooks Arrested Over KVM-Based Bank Heist Attempt

Posted by timothy on from the worse-than-an-annoyatron dept.

judgecorp writes "Twelve men have been arrested over an attempt to take control of computers at a Santander bank branch in London using a stealthily planted KVM (keyboard, video and mouse) switch installed by a bogus maintenance engineer. The men were caught by the Metropolitan Police's Central e-Crimes Unit."

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  1. Ohh.... by gigaherz · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... I was hoping they tried to exploit the bank through a Kernel-based Virtual Machine. Disappointing.

  2. Re:KVM? by zwarte+piet · · Score: 5, Funny

    Using mice in computers is not recommended, they chew on the wires and poo and pee on the boards. I've been using the MIC (Mice In Cat) protocol to prevent that.

  3. Re:American Exceptionalism and Moral Superiority by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    did you just learn how to use the bold tag or something?