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Submission + - Exploit Adapted to Foil Two-Factor Online Banking (technologyreview.com)

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**$tarDu$t**

on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @11:28AM

**$tarDu$t** writes: "Despite use of a one-time password, a six-digit code generated by a small electronic device every 30 or 60 seconds, online thieves have adapted to use real-time Trojan horses to issue transactions to a bank while the account holder is online. An earlier visit to another website allowed a malicious program to invade one victim's computer. Later, while the victim issued legitimate online payments, the malware initiated 27 transactions to various bank accounts, siphoning off $447,000 in a matter of minutes."

Comment You should be able to do both (Score 1) 371

by moocat2 on Saturday February 28, 2009 @02:24AM (#27020901) Attached to: Hope For Multi-Language Programming?

Being able to create a single large product with a single programming language is a great skill, but so is being able to do Unix shell scripting.

The system/product I have been working on for the last 10 years is two major pieces that is about 90% of the total code base and lots of small pieces. The two major pieces are both essentially a single program that can be developed in unified environment. But we also have lots of small pieces that are shell scripts that are done in the classical Unix spirit.

Being able to work in both ways is a great strength for the engineers who can do that. Those who can only do one or the other are essentially marginalized as that limits what they are able to do.

Comment not quite right (Score 1) 233

by moocat2 on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @06:02PM (#26349669) Attached to: Dr. Dobb's Journal Going Web-Only

This is not entirely accurate. I just heard from DDJ that an article of mine they accepted earlier this year is being published in February. I asked for one final change and told me that they could not do that because the issue had already gone to press.

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