Email based attack on University

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Subject: Email based attack on University
From: Keith Bainbridge <keithrbau@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 19:03:59 +1000
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Good evening Folks

I guess some of you have heard that a major Australian university wasattacked by an email scam.

I wonder if having /home on a 'noexec' partition would stop this attack,please?



Details are at


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-02/anu-cyber-hack-how-personal-information-got-out/11550578

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-02/the-sophisticated-anu-hack-that-compromised-private-details/11566540





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Keith Bainbridge

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