Recent attacks on some small banks' web sites showed a troubling fact -- the attacks were very sophisticated and very hard for people to tell they had arrived at fake sites. The attack of the web sites redirected traffic to a "bad" server, which had a web sites set up to mimic the original. To nearly any user, the site looked genuine. They arrived at the criminals' site even if they typed in the correct web address for their bank.
This type of attack is the first of its kind and may become more common. 'Even if you do go to your online bank's Web site, you need to be very careful,' says Bob Breeden, special agent supervisor with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's Computer Crime Center.
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