Article 1BDR3 Hackers take $81M from Bangladesh's central bank by pwning its $10 second-hand routers

Hackers take $81M from Bangladesh's central bank by pwning its $10 second-hand routers

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Cory Doctorow
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The central bank of Bangladesh lost $81M in a digital heist whose perpetrators have not been caught, thanks in large part to the bank's decision to run its computers without a firewall, and to run networking with second-hand cheapie routers it sourced for $10 each. (more")

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