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Cyber security pros are combatting the ever-growing hacker threat. (Getty Images)
THE HACKER THREAT
BY JAMES BERNSTEIN
The secretary at a Long Island bank was pleased with what she had just done.
She had received what she thought was an email from her boss, asking that she
transfer $28,000 to a certain account. When the boss passed her desk an hour later,
she told him she had made the transfer.
“He the boss turned purple and green,” recalls Ed Eisenstein, once Nassau’s County’s
chief information officer and now a computer consultant in Farmingdale.
The boss, Eisenstein says, had given no such order. His email had been hacked,
changed by one letter that slipped by the secretary. The money was gone.
“It all happened so fast,” Eisenstein says. “And it happens just about every single day
now. It’s rampant.”
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