Sunday, October 18, 2009

In the U.S., the Trojans stole from the bank account of almost half a million dollars

One of the government agencies in Pennsylvania to fully experience all the risks associated with the management of bank accounts from the Windows, after the Trojan emptied her account, removing from it about 480 thousand dollars.

According HAKER.ru, from an account belonging to the Office of Housing and Construction Cumberland County, disappeared 479 247 dollars. It happened after a blow to the control computer caused the Trojans Clampi, spreads via e-mail attachments. There are currently only able to return the 109 467 dollars.

Clampi able to implement successfully conceived by its creators, even despite the fact that employees of the housing used to access the account eight digit security key, which changes every minute.

The most obvious conclusion from what has happened to many would be a decision on the complete refusal to work with bank accounts via the Internet, because paper checks are much safer and not so onerous as we are trying to make.

However, if you undertake such transactions only need the best solution might be to move from computers running Windows on a system with alternative operating systems.

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