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How I Hacked a Bank and Made 40 Bucks

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Re: How I Hacked a Bank and Made 40 Bucks

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Post by sundarurfriend » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 4:19 PM UTC

aw3c2 wrote: post #8

pavel_lishin wrote: post #7

Seems to be down; anyone have a mirror?

copy the URL, go to Google, type "cache:" and hit Ctrl+v -> http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cac...

Or use the Resurrect Pages extension if you're in Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resurrect-pag... and choose among the many cache sources.

Re: How I Hacked a Bank and Made 40 Bucks

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Post by ryanhuff » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 5:17 PM UTC

I love how the author emphasizes the size of the bank: "one hundred million in assets bank. One Hundred Million.", as if they are flush with money. In reality, this is a rather small bank, likely with a 2-3 people running the IT operations.

And to say that they don't care about security is wrong. Generally, small financial institutions like this are scared to death about security breaches, but in many cases, they simply don't have the expertise to properly assess and deal with them. The example of the calendar application is just one example.

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