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Daily News PM Alert NetworkWorld.com | LANs & WANs Research Center | Update Your Profile Botnet-controlled Trojan robbing online bank customers By Ellen Messmer A new variant on the Prg Trojan, designed in Russia, is hitting victims to steal money from their banking accounts in the United States, United Kingdom, Spain and Italy, says Atlanta-based security firm SecureWorks. Read full story Senior Editor Ellen Messmer covers security for Network World. Contact her at emessmer@nww.com. MORE STORIES SPONSORED BY AEROHIVE NETWORKS, INC. A Cost-Effective WLAN Architecture The cooperative control architecture and access points (CC-APs) provide all the benefits of a controller-based WLAN architecture without the need for controllers and without re-architecting your network. Learn how CC-APs can be cost-effectively rolled out to support greenfield WLAN deployments, and easily provide a seamless upgrade for legacy autonomous access points. 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