I think you are missing the point. China will steal your software and higher people who aim to destroy your lively-hood and life.

No, I think you're missing the point. If it's true that rival nations will attempt to hack us for whatever reason, then it benefits us all to have a better understanding of basic cybersecurity than seeing foreign hackers as the Hand of God. Instead of examining the geopolitical problems here, this article takes us through a terrifying cyberstorm whipped up by mystical superhackers when the real perpetrators might as well have been script kiddies.

The problem is that if cybersecurity continues to be framed in this fashion, then all that shit that HN continually complains about -- security theater (via homeland security) and draconian Internet laws (remember SOPA) -- will continue to be status quo.

(I think frozenport was telling a joke.)

Script kiddies or not who cares - the effect on the small business was still effective. Like you say, its another wake up call to us all to have a better knowledge of security.

Definitely took them some time to write all that down so pretty.

Sounds like classic Chinese hacking though, this doesn't sound like the work of real pro's.

I get that not every programmer can be well versed in cyber security, but how is it that apparently no one at this software firm apparently practices sound scientific reasoning? Is it possible to go through enough schooling in commuter science and not be able to diagnose a hack with logical reasoning before assuming Neo and the Matrix are real?

  > schooling in commuter science

I think that you found the issue right there. ;-)

Ugh, I think someone just hacked my keyboard...the timing is just too convenient

Just don't start fiddling around in your crawl-space looking for bugs! </pun-intended>

Must be those Chinese hackers!

It seems like it was via an attachment in a phishing email that one of the employees clicked on...

"Milburn contacted Matthew Thomlinson, a Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) threat expert for help. Thomlinson found the malware had downloaded software that burrowed into the company’s Microsoft operating system, automatically uploading more tools the hackers could use to control the network remotely."