Notorious crooks broke into a company network in 48 minutes. Here’s how.

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Notorious crooks broke into a company network in 48 minutes. Here’s how.

In December, roughly a dozen employees inside a manufacturing company received a tsunami of phishing messages that was so big they were unable to perform their day-to-day functions. A little over an hour later, the people behind the email flood had burrowed into the nether reaches of the company's network. This is a story about how such intrusions are occurring faster than ever before and the tactics that make this speed possible. The speed and …