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Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2007 Larry Tabb	Preparing for the Inevitable While electronic thefts can be cleaner, less physical and certainly less bloody, the chance of getting money out of a brokerage or bank illegally is usually greater with a gun than a computer. But as the criminals and terrorists get smarter, we too must raise the bar.
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Bank Technology News April 2007 Rebecca Sausner	The New Red Menace Russian and eastern European hackers get all the glory these days, but their efforts to disrupt American financial services are a nuisance when compared to the nation-state threat that China's cyber army, and its rogue hackers, may pose.
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CIO March 15, 2004 Christopher Lindquist	Model Hacker Behavior - Under Development Forget about patches. Researchers at the Florida Institute of Technology are looking for ways to fight hackers by modeling their methods, or "exploits." The research could eventually lead to new types of security tools capable of stopping attacks that hackers haven't even invented yet.
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InternetNews September 26, 2006 Ed Sutherland	VML Exploit Subsiding, Questions Remain Microsoft said it is "working non-stop" to develop a fix for a fresh round of attacks exploiting a flaw in the VML portion of Internet Explorer.
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