Re:Advanced Off-the-Shelf Targeted Attacks Against Nation St...
by epoxyhockey on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @06:05PM
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To be honest I was a little disappointed when I saw this talk.
Agreed. The technical sophistication of the described spear-fishing attack was certainly low, using 10-year-old software and requiring the victim to enable macros, when prompted, after opening the excel spreadsheet. The only takeaway from this talk was that a dozen or so fishing emails were related together by the excel spreadsheet metadata.
Certainly not worthy material for the front page of HN, in my opinion.
Agreed. The technical sophistication of the described spear-fishing attack was certainly low, using 10-year-old software and requiring the victim to enable macros, when prompted, after opening the excel spreadsheet. The only takeaway from this talk was that a dozen or so fishing emails were related together by the excel spreadsheet metadata.
Certainly not worthy material for the front page of HN, in my opinion.