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

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Message-Id: <1177012177.25028.10.camel@localhost>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:49:37 -0400
From: Jim Popovitch <yahoo@...pop.com>
To: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: US State department rooted by 0-day
	Word	attack

On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 20:51 +0200, ad@...poverflow.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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