Weak password allowed hackers to sink a 158-year-old company (www.bbc.co.uk)
from sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to tech@programming.dev on 21 Jul 08:27
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cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de on 21 Jul 08:56 next collapse

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.

Zikeji@programming.dev on 21 Jul 10:13 collapse

The company said its IT complied with industry standards and it had taken out insurance against cyber-attack.

Backups and the 3-2-1 strategy have been industry standard for decades. What a load of crap.

cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de on 21 Jul 10:58 next collapse

Welp, the insurance apparently didn’t do much to save them, either.

Senseless@feddit.org on 21 Jul 13:15 collapse

Plot twist: they operated by the 3-2-1 strategy but never tested if their backups could also be recovered.

Zanathos@lemmy.world on 22 Jul 00:50 collapse

And none of the backups were immutable.

glimse@lemmy.world on 21 Jul 11:37 next collapse

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 next collapse

I wonder what the company’s password policy was.

ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world on 22 Jul 08:59 collapse

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”.

Probably the only solution is to ban video games