Shaw Capital Management Factoring: IMF hack a warning for others to invest in
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14 June, 2011 13:23
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Shaw Capital Management Factoring: IMF hack a warning for others to invest in
staff training
http://www.
computerworld.
com.
au/article/390066/imf_hack_warning_others_invest_staff
_training/
Hamish Barwick (Computerworld)
14 June, 2011 13:23
Staff training about simple email threats may have helped the International Monetary
Fund (IMF) in New York from being hacked by a targeted malware attack, according to
one analyst.
According to Bloomberg, the hack s perpetrators obtained a "large quantity of data,"
including e-mail and other documents during the intrusion.
Ovum s UK based IT security analyst, Graham Titterington, said in a statement that
many security mistakes occur within banks and other financial institutions because staff
have not received sufficient training on threats.
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