SecurityRatty: Putting all one's eggs in a single basket

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Putting all one's eggs in a single basket

2007-05-21 00:00:00 by Uriel Maimon in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast

I was crawling my way through the series of tubes that is the internet, when I ran into this news article. It seems a certain large financial institution's consumers were hit by a banking Trojan. This financial institution had deployed tokens to all its online banking customers, but the Trojan managed to bypass this protection by combining two fraud techniques: Pharming and man-in-the-middle (MITM).