Posted on 06/24/2020 7:24:32 PM PDT by gandalftb
>> Its always the fault of the coding team.
I suppose you have your reasons for believing that, but you’re factually incorrect.
A careless or malicious administrator could have facilitated the breach. Or an e-mail account was hacked that contained security details about the storage.
Also take into consideration the remote @home work sessions. Maybe someone in management had an Antifa brat at home that decided to browse an active VPN connection.
"Juan Pablo Dávila of Chile, tireless trader of financial futures and former employee of the state-owned company Codelco, for instructing his computer to "buy" when he meant "sell". He subsequently attempted to recoup his losses by making increasingly unprofitable trades that ultimately lost 0.5 percent of Chile's gross national product. Davila's relentless achievement inspired his countrymen to coin a new verb, "davilar", meaning "to botch things up royally".https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners
“Also take into consideration the remote @home work sessions. Maybe someone in management had an Antifa brat at home that decided to browse an active VPN connection.”
There’s a vector to be considered...
Tata, Infosys, and other H-1B pimps have no size requirements.
My understanding is that an authorized user was compromised somehow and gave access to a bad actor.
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Really wasn’t a hack, very short list of suspects, maybe a dozen. Damage is done, the torrent file was loading out last night at a terrific rate, about 10,000% of normal traffic from that site.
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These fusion sites grew their databases so fast they had to hire outside admins to manage it. The mistake was that they didn’t compartment and firewall the data at all.
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Any access is complete access to all 200 police departments.
That will teach them to sanitize their inputs.
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