IP: Anatomy of a hacking

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Anatomy of a hacking

By Sandeep Junnarkar
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
May 1, 2002, 4:00 AM PT

Even if you have never banked online, your money may never be
completely safe from an electronic heist.

Nearly every bank in the United States runs its operations on an
internal network that connects to the Internet at some point.
Although the banking industry claims that its security is virtually
foolproof, others say that any technology can be penetrated under the
right circumstances.

Electronic break-ins are often carried out with the help of factors
that have nothing to do with technological wizardry, such as an
inside source, simple carelessness, or an intruder's persistence in
trying different passwords and account numbers.

"I don't know how high-tech the hacking is," said Hale Guyer, a
special investigator and member of the Illinois attorney general's
Task Force on the Investigation of Internet Crime and Child
Exploitation. "Someone who knows a system could hack it by sneaking
in a back door."

Given the conflicting opinions and dearth of public information on
specific incidents, it is impossible to assess with any certainty how
safe one's bank accounts are online. But one way for people to judge
their accounts' security is to examine how a typical break-in might
be carried out.

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