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- The bank at the middle of an attempted $950m cyber heist didnt even have a firewall
Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Thursday, 21 April 2016
Despite countless headlines about companies and governments being hacked, it seems some businesses just haven’t quite gotten around to putting even the most basic security into place. The Bangladesh Bank at the center of an attempted $950 million cyber fraud was using network switches that cost $10 and didn’t even have a firewall according to an investigator looking into the hack cited by Reuters today. The switches, which can cost hundreds of dollars each, rather than $10, were used to connect the bank’s systems to the SWIFT payment network. By penetrating the systems, the hackers could then initiate payments using the bank’s…
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