"It's not a fair fight," said online security expert Brian Krebs at Mid-Atlantic Corporate's first IT and Security conference about the "asymmetry in sophistication" of savvy cyber criminals and their guileless victims.

"Financial institutions need to be doing more to educate their customers," Krebs said.

That was the top-line message of Krebs' speech at the recent event, where he focused on the so-called Zeus Trojan malicious code – typically it infects a computer via email or a visit to an apparently innocuous website – that lets cyber criminals seize control of a victim computer.

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