Hackers Steal and Ransom Financial Data Related To Some of the World's Largest Companies (vice.com) 46
Hackers have broken into an internet infrastructure firm that provides services to dozens of the world's largest and most valuable companies, including Oracle, Volkswagen, Airbus, and many more as part of an extortion attempt, Motherboard reported Tuesday. From the report: The attackers have also threatened to release data from all of those companies, according to a website seemingly set up by the hackers to distribute the stolen material. Citycomp, the impacted Germany-based firm, provides servers, storage, and other computer equipment to large companies, according to the company's website. Michael Bartsch, executive director of Deutor Cyber Security Solutions, a firm Citycomp said was authorized to speak about the case, confirmed the breach to Motherboard in an email Tuesday. "Citycomp has been hacked and blackmailed and the attack is ongoing," Bartsch wrote. "We have to be careful as the whole case is under police investigation and the attacker is trying all tricks."
Stupid, stupid, stupid! (Score:5, Insightful)
You don't slaughter the goose that lays the golden eggs! For years you have ripped off users and small businesses, but you couldn't get enough. You had to target corporations that can buy laws that will make your business model impossible. And cause some collateral damage to the net as well.
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That seems to be the undoing of most of these criminal enterprises. Eventually someone gets greedy and rips off someone important who can't or wont be ignored.
Re:Stupid, stupid, stupid! (Score:5, Insightful)
What's even stupider is the notion of running your crucial business operations on someone else's computers. These third parties don't give one rat's ass about your security. They exist solely to leech money from your company accounts.
Anyone who outsources their important operations to "cloud" service providers need to be immediately fired.
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What's even stupider is the notion of running your crucial business operations on someone else's computers. These third parties don't give one rat's ass about your security. They exist solely to leech money from your company accounts.
Anyone who outsources their important operations to "cloud" service providers need to be immediately fired.
Yet, you use hardware created and designed by other people?! You FOOL! You should only hold your data on hand-written hard copy in your concrete bunker!
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By that logic police are useless, I mean look at all the crimes that take place every day or if you'd prefer look at all those that are never solved. Clearly they are totally failing at their profession.
Oh wait no - they are not most of us walk around in society and conduct our day to day business with little or no real fear. Just like we mostly use computers, do online banking, utilize eCommerce without a lot of worry.
Fundamentally its an asymmetric problem. hackers have to get lucky once, the security
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Its not failing though. Its your perception that its failing. The breaches are getting bigger because the databases are bigger not because security has gotten in worse. In fact with so many more organizations doing so much more online now; its simply a question of more targets more hacks.
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And you are doing what exactly; pretending the sky is falling so you can manufacture yet another imaginary crisis for the political class to solve.
Engineers can't solve this because its a social problem. As long people want things to be "super easy", "just work", and above all cheap if not free - security failures will exist.
Your wailing and gnashing of teeth won't fix anything either. It will just be exploited by power hungry tyrants to curtail our freedoms. The market has spoken people don't want securi
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Oh wait no - they are not most of us walk around in society and conduct our day to day business with little or no real fear. Just like we mostly use computers, do online banking, utilize eCommerce without a lot of worry.
Police can not prevent each and every criminal effort, but they have been pretty good at keeping these efforts contained. An individual can kill a couple of dozen people, but won't be able to kill a whole town.
Contrary to this, hackers have been frequently able to get away with all the data they wanted, that's hundreds and hundreds of gigabytes of data without as much as token resistance. It happened to hundreds of companies and organizations, small and large, and nobody blinked an eye. Remember Stratfor? O
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The ignorance demonstrated in that statement is staggering in both breadth and depth.
mnem
Thanks for reaffirming my lack of faith in humanity.
Anything like the places I've worked (Score:1)
Hackers? (Score:2)
And again, the truth.. (Score:2)
The age of information, where only the thieves a honest.
Can't wait to see the skeletons in those closets.