[LINK] Fin Review: The Reserve Bank of Australia has been hacked by the Chinese

[Stephen Rothwell]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:11:05 +1100 Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 07:50 +1100, Kim Holburn wrote:
> > http://www.afr.com/p/national/cyber_attackers_penetrate_reserve_FEdCLOI50owRMgI0urEYnK
> 
> Summary: Spear-phishing attack succeeds due to IT naivety of senior bank
> officials.

... and the stupidity of having a browser that downloads a zip file,
unpacks it and runs the application contained in it (without popping up a
great big warning?) ... or a mail client that doesn't say "do you really
want to download this ZIP file (what is that? ;-)) from this site in
China?

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell