How A Dated Cyber-Attack Brought A Stock Exchange To Its Knees How A Dated Cyber-Attack Brought A Stock Exchange To Its Knees The New Zealand Stock Exchange website had been overwhelmed by a tsunami of offshore digital traffic. An email from the perpetrators made clear that it was a malicious attack.
NZX was hit with the cyber equivalent of a mugging, a crude and dated style of hack.
The website of the New Zealand Stock Exchange slowed to a crawl on a Tuesday afternoon in August. It was so badly throttled that the exchange couldn t post market announcements, as required by financial regulators. So with an hour left for trading, management shut the entire operation down.
The website of the New Zealand Stock Exchange slowed to a crawl on a Tuesday afternoon in August. It was so badly throttled that the exchange couldn’t post market announcements, as required by financial regulators.
Database integrity Measures taken to ensure that data has not been corrupted by, for example, transcription or keying errors, between its initial collection and its use for Mineral Resource estimation purposes. Logging information was originally recorded on paper, then entered into MS Excel format and then sent to the company s DBA once the log was complete. Since 2017, logging has been on laptops directly into MS Excel tables. Collar surveys were received electronically from surveyors. Downhole surveys (underground holes only) were received electronically from the drilling company with surface drilling surveys being entered first on paper then into MS Excel format before loading into the database.
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