Paying Hacker Extortion 412
An anonymous reader writes "A friend works as CIO at a medium sized publicly traded company. The company was contacted by a hacking group and told to pay $100,000 to prevent their company from being hacked/attacked. They actually paid the extortion (told authorities after). The authorities said the company could be charged with supporting Terrorists. Seeing that most publicly known hacks are costing companies this size nearly a million dollars, Is this supporting terrorists or supporting stockholders?"
Re:How exactly did they pay them? (Score:4, Funny)
Can't it support both? (Score:5, Funny)
It seem's like it is making everyone happy these days.
News agencies are creaming their panties.
Companies get to sweep shit under the rug while their competitors crash and burn. (I bet you Microsoft was heart broken to hear the PSN got hacked.)
Hackers make some money and who knows might eventually get laid.
The Government gets to restrict our freedom's and buy bigger shiny new toys and has even more reasons to keep printing money until it costs more to print it than its worth.
I get the pleasure of changing my password every twenty minutes to something like LKJGDSKLeiojgtqpltjwe4jt]90iejaasdfHippofucknuggets
Everyone WINS!
In an unrelated question... (Score:3, Funny)
What's the name of your friend's company?
Re:everyone loses (Score:5, Funny)
Or, more likely, they paid the 100,000 with the hopes that the hacker would be caught, then paid IBM 1 million dollars to secure their network.
IBM then pays an external contractor 200,000 to do it. They pay the hacker $100,000 to do it. Hacker walks away with 200k and a springboard to legitimate work.
Re:everyone loses (Score:4, Funny)
Re:One AND the same... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:everyone loses (Score:5, Funny)
I guess he needs to go sit over there on the Group W bench
Re:And now (Score:5, Funny)
> Trillions for defense, not a penny in tribute is the only
> long term strategy for dealing with aggression.
Sounds great, but there are always details.
In the case of the US, we wanted to get rid of a Bear, so we spent billions raising bees. The Bear grudgingly backed off, so we started trying to drive the bees away, and they attacked us. So now we spend trillions on cruise missiles to get the bees, we strip-search each other for signs of honey, and we look over our shoulder for aggressive Pandas.
Maybe there's another way.