cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de
on 21 Jul 08:56
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Never in the article is the novel idea of “backups” ever mentioned. If you treat your IT as an afterthought, your company will run into trouble eventually.
KNP director Paul Abbott says he hasn’t told the employee that their compromised password most likely led to the destruction of the company.
“Would you want to know if it was you?” he asks
Why do I feel like it was KNP director Paul Abbott’s password that was compromised
DemBoSain@midwest.social
on 21 Jul 16:49
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I wonder what the company’s password policy was.
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world
on 22 Jul 08:59
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James Babbage, Director General (Threats) at the NCA, says it is the characteristic of a younger generation of hackers, who now are “getting into cybercrime probably through gaming”.
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Never in the article is the novel idea of “backups” ever mentioned. If you treat your IT as an afterthought, your company will run into trouble eventually.
Backups and the 3-2-1 strategy have been industry standard for decades. What a load of crap.
Welp, the insurance apparently didn’t do much to save them, either.
Plot twist: they operated by the 3-2-1 strategy but never tested if their backups could also be recovered.
And none of the backups were immutable.
Why do I feel like it was KNP director Paul Abbott’s password that was compromised
I wonder what the company’s password policy was.
Probably the only solution is to ban video games