The electronic sky is falling in

[sawyl]

Did anyone else think the Foreign Secretary's concerns about cyber attacks fell slightly flat?

The foreign secretary said the FO attack came in the form of an email sent to three of his staff "which claimed to be about a forthcoming visit to the region and looked quite innocent". "In fact it was from a hostile state intelligence agency and contained computer code embedded in the attached document that would have attacked their machine. Luckily, our systems identified it and stopped it from ever reaching my staff," Hague said.

Or, put in plain English, someone in China emailed them a Word macro virus and their anti-virus software stopped it...