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智 课 网 雅 思 备 考 资 料 雅思阅读模拟真题——Hackers target the home front 本文来源于北京语言大学雅思培训中心向网友提供的在难度、长度 、题材、题型方面与雅思考试近似的练习。这些练习，均以最新的国外 报刊上的文章为素材，按雅思阅读的题型，出题并提供答案及简单注释 。欢迎大家积极使用。     Hackers target the home front   1. One of the UKs leading banks has been forced to admit that organised hacking gangs have been targeting its executives. For the past year, Royal Bank of Scotland has been fighting systematic attempts to break into its computer systems from hackers who have sent personalised emails containing keyloggers to its senior management. This has included executives up to board level and is now the subject of a separate investigation by the Serious and Organised Crime Agency.   2. The hackers are homing in on the trend for people to work from home. The hackers make the assumption that the computers being used outside the work environment are more vulnerable than those protected by a corporate IT department.   Growing threat   3. For companies it is a growing threat as home working increases: a recent survey from the Equal Opportunities Commission found that more than 60% of the UKs population wants the option of flexible working.   4. And the hackers are employing increasingly sophisticated techniques. Each email they send is meticulously built to make it attractive to its target, who the criminals have carefully researched by trawling the internet for information. Once the email is composed, the malware is just as carefully designed: it is often modified to avoid detection by security software.   5. The keylogger contained in the email installs itself automatically and then collects details of logins and passwords from the unsuspecting user. This means that hackers can, using the usernames and passwords stolen by the keyloggers, connect to VPNs, or Virtual Private Networks, which many companies use to create an enc