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Another British Bank Hit By KVM Crooks

Posted by timothy on Friday September 20, 2013 @08:02PM from the willie-sutton's-smarter-cousins dept.

judgecorp writes "Another British bank — Barclays — has been hit by a fraud attempt using a stealthily-planted KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) device. Unlike the previous attempt on Santander, the crooks got away with £1.3 million, but were subsequently apprehended by the Metropolitan Police's Central e-Crimes Unit."

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Re:Ugh... by _merlin · 2013-09-20 21:17 · Score: 5, Insightful

KVM switches have had that name since at least the early '90s. How about Linux developers check to see that the aren't causing naming conflicts when they christen their projects?