Spotlight on Lax Security at Bangladesh’s Central Bank

DHAKA, Bangladesh—Bangladesh’s central bank didn’t exactly leave the computer that connects it to the global banking system out in the open—but it may still have left it vulnerable.

That terminal, for the interbank messaging system Swift, is on the eighth floor of a 31-story building towering above Dhaka’s financial district. It sits in a glass-walled enclosure known as the “dealing room,” locked behind doors that only open with a...