[Full-disclosure] US State department rooted by 0-day Word attack
Jim Popovitch
yahoo at jimpop.com
Thu Apr 19 20:49:37 BST 2007
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 20:51 +0200, ad at heapoverflow.com wrote:
> "A virus attack aimed at US State Department computers last May
> penetrated government networks after a worker in Asia opened a
> contaminated email."
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/19/us_state_dept_rooted/
Further: they opened a viral email that was disguised as being sent from
a trusted resource, with a well known document that looked legit. I
predict that things like this will plague companies and governments for
years ahead.
-Jim P.
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