Re: US State department rooted by 0-day Word attack

[Jim Popovitch <yahoo () jimpop com>]

On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 20:51 +0200, ad () 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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