Hackers stole information from the U.S. Department of Transportation and several U.S. companies by seducing employees with fake job-listings on advertisements and e-mail, a computer security firm announced on 17 July. The job listings carried malware payloads which were able to slip under the firewall radar.Security experts say such crimes occur frequently because hackers have access to software that allows them to build undetectable malware that security firms are unable to fight, and the fact that sensitive information is rarely encrypted plays into hackers hands.
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