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Click on a bookmark. Go to your bank site. Enter your user name and password. Continue to work. And now you're penniless.
This is a 'man in the middle attack' in computer security parlance. Such attacks are well understood from a theoretical perspective. What's happened here is that they're now being impelemented remotely. The latest revelation that Cisco routers can be hacked and reprogrammed is hardly reassuring.
This seems a much more severe problem than "phishing" attacks.
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