How To Rob An Online Bank And Get Away With It

Ambitious!

"The subject of our dissection is an online bank robbery. 

Not the all-too-common attack against an online banking user, his computer and his identity, but an attack against the bank itself - or more precisely, against the bank's online banking application.

An online banking attack has four distinct phases:

1. Vulnerability Finding Phase
2. Vulnerability Exploitation Phase
3. Buying Time Phase
4. Extraction Phase..."

via ACROS Security Blog: Anatomy Of An Online Bank Robbery 

AOL Running Man Lives!

The running man created by AOL (American Online) was, and maybe still is, the most iconic representation of Internet dial-up connections for many users from the mid-1990s to 2010.

Apparently, he was still making appearances at tech events as recently as 2009, as seen here in Washington D.C.

Running Man at TECH Cocktail DC 6

Location: Left Bank in Adams Morgan, Washington D.C. on August 27, 2009. Photo by Shawn Duffy, via Flickr.

I wish I knew the context for his appearance! I wish I had had a chance to see Running Man too.