Accenture Downplays Ransomware Attack as LockBit Gang Leaks Corporate Data (therecord.media) 15
Fortune 500 company Accenture has fell victim to a ransomware attack but said today the incident did not impact its operations and has already restored affected systems from backups. From a report: News of the attack became public earlier this morning when the company's name was listed on the dark web blog of the LockBit ransomware cartel. The LockBit gang claimed it gained access to the company's network and was preparing to leak files stolen from Accenture's servers at 17:30:00 GMT. In an emailed statement, Accenture not only confirmed the attack but also greatly played down its impact. But while Accenture said the incident was quickly contained, this didn't stop the hackers from threatening to leak files they stole from the company's internal network.
It is time to make computers hard to use again (Score:3)
Computers have gotten so easy to use now, that nearly anyone can use them, and companies will hire the cheapest they can get to cut their cost center costs down.
Computers need to be difficult to use, and only hire the best they can afford, so system can be locked down properly, and not worry about opening up ports so every PC can broadcast that it on the network, what its name is. Where half the PCs on a large network are actually some makeshift file share. And data is haphazardly placed in wherever is most convenient.
You have a SQL Server, then Only the SQL Server port is open, if you need to remotely administer it. You better have a second internal network setup with only the necessary port open. It is a lot of work, and will make the lives of a lot of Fake IT people difficult. But in today's world we need to really focus on security.
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Ah I so miss the mainframe days of yore. Computers so hard to use only geeks in their blessed robes were allowed to touch them.
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Making computers hard to use again will result in, among other things, massive unemployment amongst our community. It would almost certainly also result in an economic recession, if not depression - computers' ease of use is largely what's driving the modern economy.
I would think there are better solutions other than making computers difficult to use. Perhaps requiring all corporate decision makers to actually learn about computer security and demonstrate some basic grasp of its basic principles... combined
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It's Accenture. No Surprise (Score:2)
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I'm surprised you'd say Anderson Insulting not not call the current company Indenture. :)
Good (Score:2, Interesting)
I worked for the company for a time and, at least on the contract I was assigned to, they were quite willing to look the other way regarding blatant racism on the job and the fact that the hiring managers were very clearly using race as a factor in deciding who to hire. I was working on a contract for a large tech company, so they were perfectly aware of what was going on as well, but chose to hide behind the "they're not employed by us" bullshit. The on-site management team were explicitly told not to do s
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I have no idea if Accenture is racist or not, but I've worked for over 20 companies, large (80K+) and small (2 employees), and everything in-between. I've never seen or heard of any racism at any of these companies, nor have I seen it in any of the other companies I've had to work with.
However, I've seen managers terrified to fire someone who was in a "protected" group even though they had cause. Those that needed to be fired were eventually let go when there was either a large layoff or a consolidation a
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I worked for the company for a time and, at least on the contract I was assigned to, they were quite willing to look the other way regarding blatant racism on the job and the fact that the hiring managers were very clearly using race as a factor in deciding who to hire. I was working on a contract for a large tech company, so they were perfectly aware of what was going on as well, but chose to hide behind the "they're not employed by us" bullshit. The on-site management team were explicitly told not to do something by Accenture HR, they did it anyway, and then the Accenture HR department wouldn't even do something simple like suspend the individuals pending the outcome of an internal investigation. Instead, senior managers in the company shielded individuals, even when they retaliated against employees right in front of them for complaining about the racism.
So, quite frankly, fuck 'em. I hope the hackers got something juicy and releases it. Companies like Accenture are a cancer on the workplace and society. The sooner we cut them out the better.
This isn't a new thing or restricted to Accenture.
Having a foreign sounding name can often result in your resume being put straight into the bin even if you were born here (UK, but seen the same thing in Oz and I doubt any other western country would be different). The classic "you wouldn't be a good cultural fit" is often used if one of them manages to sneak through to the interview stage.
Accenture is a cancer on the workforce and society, not just for that but for the way they operate, being a large
Accenture! the blind, (Score:2)
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"The blind leading the blind" - at several hundred, if not thousands of dollars, per staff-hour!
What you can say, of course is "ka-ching!'
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Accenture is Crap (Score:1)
Accenture was always a self serving Crap consulting firm that owns other businesses focused on outsourcing that they recommend to their clients.
So as far as I am concerned could not have happened to a better target.
Irony at its finest.
Another one bites the dust.... (Score:2)
Sure, that they had good backups and knew how to use them is a plus. But a consulting company of this type, with tons of _really_ confidential data on their servers _must_ _not_ fall to such an attack at all.
If these attackers stole a lot, Accenture may be dead.