Thursday, March 30, 2006

Banks Phished by own servers


Banks phished by own servers
Hackers picking on small banks too.
Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
30 March 2006

Three Florida banks have had identity-theft attacks launched from their own Web sites.

Earlier this month, attackers were able to hack servers run by the Internet service provider (ISP) that hosted three small banks' Web sites. They then redirected traffic from the legitimate Web sites to a bogus server, designed to resemble the banking sites, according to Bob Breeden, special agent supervisor with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's computer crime centre.

Full Story here
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?NewsID=5680

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