Hackers take $81M from Bangladesh's central bank by pwning its $10 second-hand routers
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1BDR3)
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")