News tagged with bank heists
Russia's hackers pose growing global threat
Dec 30, 2008 |
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Not long ago, the simple, anonymous thrill of exposing chinks in American software was enough of a payoff for a Russian hacker.
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World Bank musters $5.5 billion for solar projects
Dec 09, 2009 |
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The World Bank announced Wednesday 5.5 billion dollars would be invested in solar energy projects in five countries of the Middle East and North Africa in a bid to combat climate change.
French woman asks court for dead husband's sperm
Sep 23, 2009 |
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A 39-year-old widow asked a French court Wednesday to allow her to retrieve her late husband's frozen sperm so that she can be inseminated and have his child.
Banking on outlier detection: Simple computer model could act as early warning system for failing banks
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Recent bank failures point to the continuing need for vigilance by regulators and investors. Now, a report in the International Journal of Operational Research, discusses the possibility of an early-warning system that s ...
Canadian charged in US in Internet gambling case
Aug 06, 2009 |
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A Canadian resident was indicted in the United States on fraud and related charges for processing some 350 million dollars for Internet gambling firms, officials said Thursday.
UK botanists bank 10% of world's plant species
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Botanists at Britain's Kew Gardens have collected seeds from 10 percent of the world's wild plants, their first goal in a long-term project to protect all endangered species, they said Thursday.
NYC bank heist makes for an unexpected Tweet
Jul 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- "So tired today," Annemarie Dooling tweeted early Tuesday. "really really tired. ugh."
In search of the root causes of the 2008 crisis: New York Fed to hear new theory on financial meltdown
Dec 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Anjan Thakor, finance professor at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, will present a new theory on the causes of the financial crisis to a meeting of the New York Federal Reserve ...
First stem cell transplant on Chilean leukemia patient
Jul 23, 2009 |
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A middle-aged leukemia patient has became Chile's first patient to receive stem cells from an umbilical cord in a radical procedure that could cure the disease, health officials here said Thursday.
Businesses vulnerable to cyber attacks
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Most of us think cyber crooks cast their phishing lines mostly to try to hook everyday consumers. But some businesses across the country have seen hundreds of thousands of dollars vanish from their bank accounts after cyber ...
Bogus e-mails from FDIC link computer users to viruses, says computer forensics expert
Oct 27, 2009 |
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Cyber criminals are using fake messages claiming to be from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to deliver a virus capable of stealing unsuspecting victims' bank passwords and other sensitive ...
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