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

[Andy Farkas]

On 13/03/13 07:21, Tom Worthington wrote:
> On 12/03/13 08:11, Karl Auer 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.
> Yes, that is essentially how the recent cyber-attacks have been
> operating. But it is easy for even a well trained employee to mistake a
> malicious message for a genuine one. Organizations need to be filtering
> out these messages.
>
> Also it is time for Australia to make it clear that it considers state
> sanctioned cyber-attack on government, military or civilian
> infrastructure to be an act of war. Response would be commensurate with
> the intent and effect of the attack and could be by cyber-attack,
> electronic warfare or conventional military force.
>
> Australia has, and is acquiring more, electronic warfare aircraft which
> can temporally disable, or destroy, electronic equipment from a
> distance. Special forces, as well as air and submarine launched weapons,
> can be used to destroy facilities. Such a response may not be announced
> publicly and the state concerned may prefer to pretend that their
> facilities suffered from an "accident" (due to an electrical overload or
> gas leak), rather than admit vulnerability.
>
>

When the bombing finishes you then read:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/markets/cyber-attacks-repelled-by-it-security-rba/story-e6frg916-1226595057872

"THE Reserve Bank has denied reports that its computer systems or 
networks have been compromised by hackers, saying that at no point has 
any data or information been lost or its systems corrupted."

Oops.

-andyf