How A Dated Cyber-Attack Brought A Stock Exchange To Its Knees
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 regul...
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