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

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Message-id: <462880CE.32028.A5E2C19A@nick.virus-l.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:58:54 +1200
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick@...us-l.demon.co.uk>
To: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: US State department rooted by 0-day Word
	attack

Jim Popovitch wrote:

> 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.

That's a pretty safe "prediction" given that it's fairly well-knnown 
such has already been happening for several years...

Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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